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 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Compagnie des Bronzes de Bruxelles

From Graces Guide


1859 Established as a limited company at the Rue d'Assaut, in the centre of Brussels, near Saint-Michel Cathedral. Land was purchased in the suburbs of Brussels, in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, where a foundry and large workshops were established in 1862-1863. Production ranged from small domestic taps and table lamps to monumental castings.

The last casting took place on April 30, 1977 and in 1979, bankruptcy was declared.

The above information is condensed from here, which provides an excellent account of the history of the business [1]

The factory gradually became derelict, but it was eventually acquired by the local community, and is now La Fonderie, Brussels Museum of Industry and Labour.

See here for an account of the foundry, which includes photographs showing workers in buildings which are now restored or standing derelict in the museum.[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. [1] BE-monumen website: Compagnie des Bronzes
  2. [2] patrimoineindustriel.be website: La Compagnie des Bronzes, une entreprise bruxelloise entre art et industrie by Christine A. Dupont