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Blackburn Mineral Oil Co.

Company number:
Not known
Share capital:
Not known
Started:
c.1866
Finished:
c.1868
Oil works:

Valuation rolls show oil works and minerals at Blackburn occupied by the Blackburn Mineral Oil Co, the property being owned by Dougal Brothers.

Redwood refers to the Blackburn Oil Works as "Dougal and Brothers' oil works".

The 1865 valuation rolls show James, David and William Dougall as owners of public house, house and smithy, house and byre, and three subjects in Blackburn.