FROM THE VIDEO ARCHIVES: WEASTE CEMETERY: PART 5

William Harvey is best remembered for not only being a cotton mill owner but a fellow member of the Bible Christian Church, King Street, Salford. He was a devout vegetarian and abstainer from alcohol and tobacco, a rare breed in Salford! He was also present at Peterloo in 1819, twice Lord Mayor of Salford. He died in 1870 at work in Acton Square, off Broad Street. 

Henry Lightbown opened a mill in Salford in 1851 to produce wallpaper called the Hayfield mill. The company became one of the leading producers of affordable wallpapers in the country. He was also well known in Salford as a councillor in the Seedley ward. 

He died in 1899 at his house at his home Weaste Hall on Weaste Lane, now the site of All Hallows RC School. 

This article first appeared on SalfordOnline on the 17th of July 2009, it is republished here with the blessing of renowned vegetarian alcohol abstainer Tony Flynn, it was filmed and edited by Tony Thornborough.