After a rival in the warehousing business directed a smear campaign against him, Ramsbottom industrialist William Grant swore to make him regret it. Not long afterwards, his rival found himself in financial trouble, and as luck would have it he was unable to resume his business without approval from the very man he had tried to ruin, William Grant.

When the bankrupt warehouseman presented himself at Grant Brothers, William indulged himself in a display of grumpy resentment, before gaily approving the debtor’s return to business. Indeed, on learning of the shocking state of his domestic finances, William gave him ten pounds, at which the man who once tried to ruin him broke down in tears.

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