Mm GREENOCK LIBRARY. (INSTITUTED ist JANUARY, 1783.) Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from National Library of Scotland http://www.archive.org/details/postofficegreeno185556uns POST OFFICE GREENOCK DIRECTORY Foa 1855-56, WITH A CLASSIFICATION OF TRADES AND PROFESSIONS.; ALSO, AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING A LIST OP THE SHIPPING BELONGING TO THE PORT, UP TO THE LATEST DATES ; TIDE TABLE ; POSTAL ARRANGE- WELL MENTS ; REGULATIONS OF CEMETERY, WELLINGTON AND COMPRISING PARKS, &C. ; AND A VARIETY OF USEFUL INFORMATION, CHURCHES, MINISTERS, AND PRESBYTERIES ; WITH LISTS OF MAGISTRATES AND COUNCIL, WATER TRUSTEE8, HARBOUR COMMISSIONERS, COMMISSIONERS OF SUPPLY, &C. ; RELIGIOUS, BENEVOLENT, FRIENDLY, LITERART, AND SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATIONS, &C. &C. •M^S ^ ^V M-l GREENOCK ; PRINTED BY JOSEPH BLAIR, 9, CATHCART STREET. 1 S 5 5- ,- ^°l I ' ; ADDKESS The Publishers, in presenting a New Issue of the Post-Office Greenock Directory, avail themselves of the opportunity to express their grateful acknowledgments to the Merchants, Ship- owners, Shopkeepers, and the Public generally, for the kind as- sistance which has been received in procuring the various details and it is hoped the work will be found, on perusal, as free from errors as any of a similar kind. The Publishers feel confident that the Directory could be greatly improved, and rendered more useful to the Public, were it issued annually, instead of every alternate year as at pre- sent ; and, in compliance with a very generally expressed de- sire, it is their intention to spare neither labour nOr expense in supplying the desideratum. By availing themselves of every description of local and general information likely to prove use- ful and interesting, they confidently hope that the future issues of the Directory will obtain the continued support of the com- munity. Post-Office, j Greenock, June, 1855. J EKEATA Page 26, line 5th from bottom, for Caldee, read Colder. Page 39, line 6th from bottom, for No. 9, read 29. Page 55, line 5th from top, delete Comma (,) after Fraser. Page 93, line 9th from top, for Morrison & Son, read Morrison <fc Smith. Page 131, line 7th from bottom, for Bernards, read Berry-yards. Page 9 from end of Advertisements, " Milner's Patent Fire- Proof Safes," for No. 48, read 40. CONTENTS. Address. Calendar. Stamp Duties. Tide Table. Street Directory, 1 Post-Office Directory, 5 Trades and Professions, 172 APPENDIX. Adjuster of Imperial Weights and Measures ... ... 5 Advertisements, (see end of Appendix,) — Banking Houses, 19 Baptist Chapel, West Burn street, 84 Burgh and Police Court, ... 21 Caledonian Railway Company, 16 Carriers, 44 Cartsdyke Mechanics' Library, 14 Charity School, ... 15 Churches, Ministers, and Presbyteries, . 27 Clyde Shipping Company's Towing Vessels, 47 Commissioners of Supply for the Lower Ward, 22 Commissioners on the Harbour, 4 Commissary Court, 21 Conveyances, 44 Consuls at Greenock, 16 Courts, 21 Customhouse, ... 17 Deep Sea Pilots, (licensed), 51 Deep Sea Pilots' Rates, 50 Engines for extinguishing Fire, 5 FerryBoats, 44 Fishery Office, 18 Glasgow Pilots at the Greenock Station, 50 Greenock Railway Guaranteed Company, 16 Greenock Census Returns, 2 Greenock Cemetery, Wellington Park, and Well Park,... 6 Greenock Chamber of Commerce, 4 Greenock Coffee Room, 14 Greenock Exchange Buildings and Assembly Rooms, ... 14 Greenock Hospital and Infirmary, 13 Greenock Library, 13 Greenock Mechanics' Institution, 14 Greenock Parochial Board, 6 Greenock Prison, 5 Greenock Shipping List, ••• 55 . CONTENTS. Harbour Police, 5 Harbour Regulations, 47 Income Tax Commissioners, 22 Inland Revenue Office, (late Excise) ... ]8 Inland Revenue Office, (Stamps and Taxes) 18 Insurance Offices and Agents, 25 Inverkip and Duncan Street Burying Grounds, . 11 Justice of Peace Court, 21 Lieutenancy of Renfrewshire, 22 Lighters carrying Goods between Glasgow and Greenock daily, 47 Local Marine Board. 20 Lower Ward Committee of Renfrewshire Prison Board,. 5 List of Porters and their Numbers, 55 List of Bonded Warehouses in Greenock, 18 Lunatic Asylum, (Hill-end) .. 13 Magistrates and Town Council, ... .. ... ... 3 Markets, ttm .]. ... 6 Marine Board and Shipping Office, ,.! 84 Mills on Shaws Water Falls, 15 Omnibuses, ... 44 Parliamentary and Municipal Boundaries,' ... ... 1 Physicians and Surgeons, .... ,23 Post Office, ... ... '. 60 Public Offices, "] ... ... 23 Quarter Sessions, ... c /, 22 Registrars of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, ... ... 26 Regulations for Carters, 51 Regulations for Porters and Barrowmen, ... ... ... 52 Regulations for Steam Vessels, ... ... • 47 River Pilotage Rates, ... ... 49 Sailing Vessels, '. ,'. 44 Schools and Teachers, 36 Shaws Water Company, ... ., 15 Sheriff Court, ' 21 '.'.'. .'.'.' "\ Sheriff Small Debt Court, ... ..'. 21 Societies, 38 Steam Vessels, ;> ... 45 Town Police, 5 Trustees on the Harbours, 4 Water Commissioners, 4 Water Trustees, 4 Writers, . • 23 Wellington Park Bowling and Quoiting ciubs, ... ... 84 ADVERTISEMENTS. Thomas Shirley & Co., earthenware manufacturers. Honeyman & Campbell, general ironmongers, &c. J. & U. M'Gregor, funeral undertakers. Stephenson, Johnston & Co., furnishing ironmongers. D. & G. Brymner, coal, lime, and brick merchants. CONTENTS. Peter Dillon, cheap book establishment. Archibald Dow, wine and spirit dealer. William Innes, bookseller, stationer, librarian, and news agent. Neil Livingston, wine and spirit merchant. John M'Naught, painter and paper hanger. John Lawson & Sons, home and export nurserymen, &c. John Coyle, tinsmith and gas-fitter. James M'Lintock, boot and shoe maker. Robert Cunningham, cabinetmaker and upholsterer. James Gallacher, fruiterer and poulterer. Daniel M'Crae, sheep smearing grease manufactory. George Nisbet, hair cutter, peruke maker, and perfumer. Neil M'Donald, tailor. J. Milne, boot and shoemaker. W. F. M'Chlery, hotel keeper. John Quin, umbrella and parasol maker. Edward Douglas, watchmaker and jeweller. J. G. Alexander, chemist and druggist. The Times Insurance Companies. The Standard Life Assurance Company. Glasgow and West of Scotland Guardian Society for the Protection of Trade. Lancashire Insurance Company. North British Insurance Company. North of England Insurance Company. Globe Insurance Company. London Assurance Corporation. Northern Assurance Company. Imperial Foreign and British Fire Insurance Company. Imperial Life Assurance Company. Alan Ker, patent hair felt. Greenock Gas Works. J. Bowman, photographic establishment. J. Taylor, photographic rooms. Gray, Dunn & Co., biscuit bakers. Charles Doig, hat manufacturer. Adamson's photographic establishment. John Blackhall, comb manufacturer. Robert Greig, wright, mangle maker, and bowl turner. Coulthard, Royal Albert hotel. Gray, Dunn & Co., ship biscuit bakers. Ferguson, Miller, & Co. patent smoke consumers. Robt. Wotherspoon & Co.. Glenfield patent starch manufacturers. William M'Farlane, wright and mangle maker, &c. Finlay & Neilson, travelling bag makers. William Howie, practical consulting engineer and valuator. John Balfour, furniture warehouse. Messrs White & Co,, photographic portrait gallery. Robert Watson, cabinet and upholstery warehouse. James Allan, sen., lamp, grate, and stove show rooms. John Finlay, furnishing ironmonger. CONTENTS. John Herriot & Son, auctioneers and appraisers. Charles Stevenson, sculptor and photographist. D. Johnston, medical botanist, public baths. Alexander M'Master, tailor and clothier. John Lauder; brick, coal, and lime merchant. M'Intyre & Campbell, house and ship joiners. United Kingdom Temperance and General Provident Institution. Adam & Hall, smiths and boiler makers. James G. Alexander, chemist George Augustus Cole, British wine agent James MacFarlan, hat manufacturer. Joseph Crookshanks, coach proprietor and livery stable keeper. Dr Hume, herbalist. John Cameron, auctioneer and appraiser. William Johnston, bookseller, stationer, and lithographer. Robert Macausland, furnishings, hosiery, &c. Daniel Crombie, plasterer. "William Innes, fire-proof safes, &c. A. Patrick & Co., boot and shoe makers. Robert B. Finlay, tailors and clothiers. John Foster, plasterer. Ellard & Co., tailors, clothiers, and outfitters. Urie's American photographic gallery. John Graham, Scotia Distillery store. Gatenby's infallible hair restorative, &c. Forrest & Barr, engineers and millwrights Mrs John Hastie, carving and gilding establishment. Joseph Blair, Greenock Herald printing office. R. & J. Martin, bread, biscuit and pastry bakers. Honeyman & Campbell, general ironmongers. Adam Mitchell, bookbinder. Adams & Handyside, slaters. Burwell's promenade bazaar. — STAMP DUTIES, &c. Affidavits For every sheet or piece of paper, parchment, or vellum, on which the same shall be written or printed, 2s 6d. Affi- davits authorized to be made before Justices of Peace, exempted. Agreement, or Minute or Memorandum of Agreement without a clause of registration (not charged otherwise than under the head ex- ' agreement' in the schedule to the Act 55 Geo. III. c. 184, nor pressly exempted from duty), where the matter is of the value of £20 or upwards, whether the same is evidence of a contract, or obligatory with upon the parties from its being a written instrument, together every schedule, receipt, &c, endorsed or annexed, 2s 6d. Progressive duty on words, 2s 6d. Exemptions Agreements for the hire of any labourer, artificer, manufacturer, or menial servant. Memorandum or agreement for or relating to the sale of any good*, wares, or merchandize. Agreements entered into in the United Kingdom