Creekmoor Foundry and Mill
of Creekmoor, Poole, Dorset
1823 Sale Notice: 'PEREMPTORY SALE. CREEKMOOR IRON AND BRASS FOUNDRY AND CORN MILL. NEAR POOLE, DORSET.
TO IRONFOUNDERS, ENGINEERS, MILLWRIGHTS, BLACKSMITHS, BUILDERS, AND OTHERS, SOLD AUCTION, by Mr. MOODY, at the Nag's Head Inn, Planefield, near Poole,
(removed for convenience of Sale,) .... the valuable PLANT, STOCK, and UTENSILS of the above establishment; comprising several tons of Madely Wood, Beanford and Lawley pig iron, ditto of old scrap, ditto of bar and rod iron, several cwt. shear steel; ploughs, chaff-cutting and threshing machines, three-horse-power steam-boiler (nearly new), superior binnacle for yacht; several tons of castings, plough-shares, turn-furrows, and other plough-tackle; furnace-doors, frame; and bars, pipe boxes, and axles, sash and clockweights, shoe drags, oven-doors and frames, eaves-shooting and stack pipe, fencing and mangle castings, pig-troughs, ironing-stoves, steam-pipes, and various other castings. Also, the fixtures, utensils, new traverse-crane, oven, drying-stove, pair of Street’s blowing-engines, excellent boring-machine, blacking ditto, powerful lathe, complete, several tons of various flasks, iron and brass furnaces, backs, anvils, forges, vices, iron pans, round and long smith’s bellows, large assortment of smith’s tools, slings, chains, scale-beams and scales, weights, capital flour-machines, grist-machine, smut ditto, pair of French mill-stones, (nearly new) pair of barley ditto ; also the whole of the valuable and extensive assortment of iron, lead and wood models, embracing an infinity of almost every description. May be viewed previous to the Sale, Catalogues had on the Premises, the principal Inns in the towns adjacent, and of the Auctioneer, Hornsey, Hants.'[1]
1828 'Died, on the 8th inst., Mr. James Biddlecomb, of Creekmoor iron foundry, near this town.'[2]
1830 Creekmoor Foundry and Corn Mill offered for sale with an unexpired lease of thirty-eight years.[3]
1833 Occupied by Brooks and Ubsdell
1852 Demonstration of a reaping machine (Grarrett's improvement of the American) from the factory of Howell, Creekmoor Foundry, near Poole.[4]