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Taken from 1834 trade directory for Cheshire

In Altrincham - said to be 'A clean market town.' and its neighbourhoods of Ashton-on-Mersey, Cross Street, Bowdon, Carrington, Dunham, Lymm, Partington, Timperley, Warburton - there were:

2 post offices
5 attorneys
2 auctioneers
4 blacksmiths & farriers
7 bobbin turners
17 boot & shoe makers
2 brandy merchants
10 butchers
3 cabinet makers
6 carpenters & builders
2 chymists & druggists
2 coopers
11 corn dealers
2 cotton manufacturers
2 earthenwear dealeres
6 grocers & tea dealers
2 hair dressers
6 hatters
6 inns
3 land surveyors
6 linen drapers
2 maltsters
2 timber merchants
7 millers
1 paper manufacturer
6 saddlers
4 seedsmen
40 shopkeepers
2 slaters
16 smiths
1 veterinary surgeon
7 stone masons
7 straw hat manufacturers
8 surgeons
9 tailors
6 tanners
37 taverns & public houses
16 retailers of beer
1 slate dealer
1 confectioner
1 chair maker
3 woollen yarn & worsted manufacturers
15 wheelwrights
2 overseers
1 clog & pattern maker
1 book seller/stationer/printer
1 brick maker
1 plasterer