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Activity in Timber. Big Increase in Wool Trade Expected. Coal Industry Busy. Cotton in Demand
THE cold weather followed by the wet has further stimulated trade in several directions. There is a revival of confidence amongst men's tailors, which is reacting on the demand for cloth. In Leicestershire, Yorkshire, Lancashire and the north-east coast trade is showing a slight all-round improvement.
North-east Coast.
There has been an unexpected increase in the import of timber during the past week or two and a certain amount of extra haulage will -result. The demand for coal remains great, whilst the coke market also is active. Ship repairing and reconditioning is better. A furnace is to be relit at the Wolsingham Steel Works, Weardale. A new cinema, offices and shops are to he built at the Haymarket, Newcastle. Kettlewell, Son and Co,, Ltd., 11, Colonial Street, Hull, is to erect 350 houses, fiats, offices, etc., •at Cleadon, South Shields.
The iron and steel trade remains fairly steady. The postal authorities have started work at Newcastle tn building a £250,000 subway. Work is to start at Whitley Bay (Northumberland) on the erection of a further batch of houses under a 1250,000 project for the development of a garden city on the Briar Dene Estate.
Yorkshire.
It is quite evident that a big irnprovemeet in business is to be expected in the near future in the woollen factories.
There is a fair amount of business in the cutlery and plate departments in Sheffield and districts, and makers of safety-razor blades and scissors are still well employed. Improvements in the heavy-engineering trade are developing and sake of iron and steel scrap are heavy. The coal trade is good.
Many makers of special lines of alloy steel and tools are busy and the demand for magnets and stainless steels is still increasing.
Messrs. Melling Bros., of Balfour Road, Sheffield, are to erect 190 houses at Woodthorpe for Sheffield Corporation, and Messrs. J. Laver and Sons, of Greenhill Road, 200 houses at Shiregreen. Messrs. A. Schofield, of Scott Green, Gildereome, are to erect 80 houses at Darnley for Wakefield T.C.
Lancashire and Cheshire.
The reports from the cotton factories are geed, substantial orders having been placed for a variety of cotton and rayon fabrics. The demand for sole leather remains good. Makers of small castings in Lancashire are busy.
The Unit Construction Co., Ltd., Liverpool, is to erect 172 houses and flats at Garners Lane, for Stockport Corporation. Clitheroe is to have a new fire station at Holden Street The Victoria Hotel, Deansgate, Manchester, is to be reconstructed at a cost of f60,000, whilst 120 houses are to he built in Moss Lane by Macclesfield T.C. Midlands.
According to reports from Nottingham, makers of outerwear are busy, whilst there is a rr.sh to meet urgent orders for hosiery and underwear. In Leicestershire, too, there is still a fair number of deliveries being made against existing contracts. Manufacturers of galvanized hollow ware in the Birmingham area are in receipt of a fair quantity of orders.
Makers of iron goods in Staffordshire are optimistic as the outcome of active inquiry. Engineering works in Birmingham expect increased business.
L. J. Speight, Ltd., Imperial House, Kin,gsway, London, WC., is to proceed with the widening of the Grand Union Canal, from Napton to Birmingham, Messrs. J. Pearson, of Sutton-in-Ashfield, are to erect 40 houses in Chesterfield Road for Huthwaite U.D.C.
New Ideal Homesteads, Ltd., proposes to build 366 houses off the Newmarket Road, Chesterton.
East Anglia.
Leach and Sons, Ltd., is to build a printing works at Nene Quay, Wisbech, Scotland.
There are slight indications of improved business amongst Scottish tweed manufacturers. The shipbuilding yards on the Clyde are much busier. Wales.
A further improvement is noted in the coal trade of Wales. Work is about to commence on erection of the Temple of Peace, in Cathays Perk, Cardiff, the building costing £120,000. Newport is to spend 1150,000 on widening the 'main street, improving Shaftesbury Street corner at the approach to the bridge over the Usk. There are schemes afoot to construct a new road from Porthcawl to Margam, and to establish a bacon-curing factory at Carmarthen.
West Country.
. A fruit and vegetable-canning factory is to be established at Newton Abbot. F. J. .Amery and Sons, Ltd., Grove Street, Bath, is to adapt the Somerset Boys' Home as a ,Domestic Science Training College, at a cost of over £20,000.
London and Home Counties.
All weights of leather are in active demand, according to reports from Bermondsey. A start has already been made On the first two of several boot and shoe factories to be erected at East Tilbury.
It is anticipated that there will be greater activity in timber haulage. • New Ideal Homesteads, Ltd., is to erect 1,200 houses in East Wickham and Woolwich. W. Gradwell and Co., Ltd., Farnham Road, Slough, Bucks, is to build 43 houses in Russell Road and Clausen Avenue, Ealing. The Wonder Homes, Ltd., is to construct 62 houses in Empire Road and 96 houses in Lee Road, Ealing.
The scheme of development of Southsea Terrace, estimated to cost £250,000, has been approved, as also has that of a swimming pool at Hilsea, which may cost £22,500. A further block of flats is to be erected in Baker Street, London.