Robins Mills & Co

Receipted bill for two bales of silk and a case from the Bible Society carried to Macclesfield from London in April and June 1831. The goods would have been brought most of the way by canal, but as this was just before the opening of the Macclesfield Canal the last stretch would have been by cart from the warehouse at Red Bull near Kidsgrove and through Congleton. At this time Robins, Mills, & Co had an office at the bottom of Mill Street in Macclesfield. The trading partnership was dissolved in 1838 and the business operated as John Robins & Co until 1840 when the canal trade was taken over by J Mills & Co.