Now Hill Street was not a place I ever went to when I lived in Ashton, but we were walking back from the Portland Basin Museum and this was the route we took.
I have to say I was impressed with the museum which “is housed within the restored nineteenth century Ashton Canal Warehouse in Ashton-under-Lyne.
The museum combines a lively modern interior with a peaceful canal side setting.
It is an exciting family friendly museum, with something for all the family."*
Walking back it would have been pretty easy to miss the Britannia Brass Works which doesn’t much look like the sort of foundry I am used to.
So I am hoping that there will be someone out there who can offer up the story of the place and perhaps also something on S Parron.
I know that the Britannia Brass Works was established in 1872 and that just twenty seven years later “Mary Eastwood of Britannia Brass Works Ashton-under-Lyne trading as Walter Eastwood as a Brass Founder and Brass Finisher" had gone bankrupt.**
On a happier note the places was still turning out bits of brass in 1922 when it was "the JUNCTION IRONWORKS CO., Mechanical Engineers, Bentinck Street, Ashton-under-Lyne. T. A.: " Junction Ironworks, Ashton-under-Lyne." T. N.: Ashton-under-Lyne 435. Established 1902. Directors: Fred J. Reed and Harry Jackson.”***
And the rest from 1922 till now will I hope be revealed soon.
Location; Ashton-Under-Lyne
Picture; The Britannia Brass Works, 2016, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
*Portland Basin Museum, http://www.tameside.gov.uk/museumsgalleries/portland
**London Gazette, November 7 1899
***Whos Who in Engineering, 1922, Graces' Guide to British Industrial History, http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/1922_Who's_Who_In_Engineering:_Company_J
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| The Brass Works, 2016 |
The museum combines a lively modern interior with a peaceful canal side setting.
It is an exciting family friendly museum, with something for all the family."*
Walking back it would have been pretty easy to miss the Britannia Brass Works which doesn’t much look like the sort of foundry I am used to.
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| The Brass Works, 1899 |
I know that the Britannia Brass Works was established in 1872 and that just twenty seven years later “Mary Eastwood of Britannia Brass Works Ashton-under-Lyne trading as Walter Eastwood as a Brass Founder and Brass Finisher" had gone bankrupt.**
On a happier note the places was still turning out bits of brass in 1922 when it was "the JUNCTION IRONWORKS CO., Mechanical Engineers, Bentinck Street, Ashton-under-Lyne. T. A.: " Junction Ironworks, Ashton-under-Lyne." T. N.: Ashton-under-Lyne 435. Established 1902. Directors: Fred J. Reed and Harry Jackson.”***
And the rest from 1922 till now will I hope be revealed soon.
Location; Ashton-Under-Lyne
Picture; The Britannia Brass Works, 2016, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
*Portland Basin Museum, http://www.tameside.gov.uk/museumsgalleries/portland
**London Gazette, November 7 1899
***Whos Who in Engineering, 1922, Graces' Guide to British Industrial History, http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/1922_Who's_Who_In_Engineering:_Company_J
Did you ever find any info on the brass works as it is now gone
ReplyDeleteNo but that is a prompt to look again.
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