S. and J. Watts & Co.

This was a wholesale drapery business, and it occupied this building until 1973. It was bought by Britannia Hotels Ltd., for conversion to a hotel, in 1979.





6201 James Hamilton Adamson Manchester Regiment
E.W. Arnold - possibly 2235 Private Ernest Walter Arnold 1st/6th Manchester Regiment 7.8.1915, aged 18 Son of Walter Edward and Emily Jane Arnold, of Lee Cottage, Disley
J Bacon
A R Backhouse
Lieutenant Bertram Morris Barnes 9th, attached 12th, Manchester Regiment 26.4.1917, aged 28 Son of Mr. A. J. Barnes, of 6, Chatham Grove, Withington
14233 Private Fred Barrow Manchester Regiment
27217 Private John William Bennett Wiltshire Regiment
E Blackburn
A Booth
William Brandreth
10272 Serjeant Arthur James Balfour Brooke D.C.M. 18th Manchester Regiment 1.7.1916
6219 Corporal William Isherwood Brown 16th Manchester Regiment 3.3.1916, aged 24 Son of James and Elizabeth Brown, of 45, George Street, Altrincham
S Burgess
T Burns
2513 Private James Holden Carswell 4th Royal Scots 29.6.1915
52988 Private J W Christy 1st The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 17.1.1917, aged 21 Son of Robert Christy, of 199, Every Street, Ancoats
26558 Corporal Frederick Joseph Circuit 17th The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 5.8.1916, aged 26 Son of Frederick Joseph and Elizabeth Circuit; husband of Henrietta Circuit, of 32, Shallcross Street, Everton, Liverpool
J Clegg
J F Collier
H Connor
10374 Private Charles William Cope Manchester Regiment
75607 Private John Shaw Crowther Royal Welsh Fusiliers
6233 Private James Thomas Dawson Manchester Regiment
G Edge
F Edge
9036 Private Edward Gladstone Fawkes Manchester Regiment
J S Fitchett
J Fletcher
H Francis

250844 Private R L Gaffney 2nd/6th Manchester Regiment 2.5.1918, aged 24 Son of Richard and A. M. Gaffney, of 390, Liverpool Road, Peel Green, Manchester
P Galway
8590 Private John Frederick Gorner 17th Manchester Regiment 22.10.1918
F Green
S B Hall
32412 Corporal Irving Hamer 2nd Manchester Regiment 12.7.1917, aged 20 Son of John Edward and Sarah Hamer, of 35, Richmond Street, Newton Heath
17368 Private Robert Hamnett 8th East Lancashire Regiment 15.7.1916, aged 24 Son of Robert and Annie Hamnett, of 18, Moor Street, Rusholme
6252 Private John George Hawley Manchester Regiment
250155 Corporal Robert Leslie Heard
T Hill
F W Hill
William Hiorns (42814) Labour Corps 1917
1909 Private Arthur Herbert Howell Manchester Regiment
A Johnstone
R W Jones
J Lambert
6039 Private Albert Lancashire 18th Army Cyclist Corps 12.9.1917
J W Lawson Royal Scots
A Leather
Second Lieutenant Harry Tunstill Leigh 17th Lancashire Fusiliers 14.10.1918, aged 24 Son of Fred and Lucy Leigh, of 69, Oak Road, Crumpsall
10551 Lance Corporal Sydney Albert Levings 19th Manchester Regiment 16.10.1916, aged 26 Son of Ferdinand George and Honoria Levings
F Marsden
B/1436 Rifleman Henry Maclellan Martin 7th Rifle Brigade 30.7.1915, aged 23 Son of John and Jeannie Martin, of Whithorn, Wigtownshire
A Moss
95214 Gunner Albert Myers "A" Battalion, Tank Corps 1.10.1917, aged 24 Son of Henry and Mary Ann Myers, of 95, Darncombe Street, Moss Side
F Neilson
F Newton
H Taylor
A Andrew

6286 Lance Corporal Frederick Ebern Ogden Manchester Regiment
295017 Corporal Fred Martin Parsons Manchester Regiment
W Partington
D Raw
37401 Private William Thomas Richardson Welsh Regiment
C Robinson
A Rogers
W P Russell
12649 Private Charles William Smethurst Manchester Regiment
6307 Lance Corporal Frederick Rowland Smith Manchester Regiment
308123 Private Cyril Sutton The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
251023 Private Joseph Elton Stone Manchester Regiment
H Taylor
W A Thomas
H G Townley
W Walker
W Walters
275764 Corporal William George Wareham Manchester Regiment
T E Watson
3249 Private Robert Masson White 7th Gordon Highlanders 13.11.1916
43492 Private Charles Cullen Wilde 12th (Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry) Manchester Regiment 3.9.1918, aged 24 Son of Mr. W. D. Wilde, of 16, Clee Avenue, Anson Estate, Longsight
T W Wild
A Williams
H Williams
T H Wiswall
J B Wood
J Wood
T R Wylie
11975 Serjeant William John Wynn Manchester Regiment