J P Swanwick and Co

The Macclesfield Courier of January 1832 states:
The advantages of water communication are daily manifesting themselves in the instance of the Macclesfield Canal. It is well known that for many years past this town has been mainly dependent upon the Stockport millers for its supply of flour; but since the formation of the canal and the consequent erection of the extensive steam mill of Messrs J. P. Swanwick & Co. not only is the town and neighbourhood chiefly supplied thereby, but flour is now exported from Macclesfield to Stockport; a cargo of 150 loads was dispatched on Thursday to a respectable flour dealer in the latter town from the Macclesfield steam mill.

The mills, on the site of the later Hovis Mill were owned by Joseph Powell Swanwick & Co and leased to Francis Brindley & Co, corn millers and merchants. Swanwicks had an extensive carrying business on the canal but sold this to what became the Anderton Carrying Company in 1838. By 1854 the mill was described as in the occupation of Messrs. Brindley & Company, and the carrying department of the Duke of Bridgewater's Trustees and the Anderton Company.

This invoice covers a delivery of bricks in Macclesfield in 1835.