Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,850 pages of information and 247,161 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

City Iron Works, Oxford

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Bridge Street, St. Ebbe's Oxford.

1865 advert: 'City Iron Works, Bridge Street, St. Ebbe's Oxford.
W. WHARTON, Engineer, Iron Founder, Smith, &c. &c., Steam Engines, and every description of Machinery. All kinds of Builders’ Iron Work, Ornamental Church Work, General Repairs, etc., etc.'[1]

1870 advert: 'CITY IRON WORKS, BRIDGE STREET, OXFORD.
W. WHARTON BEGS respectfully to thank his numerous friends and supporters during the last 15 years, and to inform them and the public generally that he has enlarged his premises, and has now every facility for executing all orders in connexion with ENGINEERING, BRASS FOUNDING, and WROUGHT-IRON WORK of every description.
ESTIMATES ON APPLICATION. '[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. Oxford Times - Saturday 13 May 1865
  2. Oxford Times - Saturday 29 January 1870