Jericho Foundry
of Jericho Foundry, Oxford
1829 Advert: 'WILLIAM CARTER and Co, IRON AND BRASS FOUNDERS, Wrought Iron Fence Manufacturers, Whitesmiths. Bell Manufacturers. Manufacturers of HANDSOME STOVE GRATES, (And of most other Articles to which Wrought and Cast Iron can applied.)
JERICHO. OXFORD, NEAR THE NEW PRINTING OFFICE, BEG to acquaint their friends and the public that they have purchased and have in their possession the valuable Patterns, late the property of Mr. P. Rowntree of Abingdon - and as their connexion with Mr. R. has entirely ceased, he having left their employment, they respectfully solicit their friends to send their orders direct to the Jericho Foundry.
W. C. and Co. beg to assure their friends that any order with which they may favoured will meet with the most prompt attention, and will be executed in such a manner and on terms so moderate they confidently trust will give entire satisfaction.
Men to do repairs are sent to any part of the country.
Steam Engines made the most improved plan to any power - a specimen may be seen at their Works daily.
Ornamented Wire Work for Flower-beds, Walks, Pleasure-grounds &c. Iron and Brass Castings made to any pattern or design. A good price given for old Brass and Cast Iron.
W.C. having erected a large Lathe, worked from his Steam Engine, is enabled to bore and turn large Iron Work of any
GEORGE SMITH, late of the firm of Rowntree and Smith, Iron and Brass Founders, &c., Ock-street Abingdon, Berks, begs respectfully to inform his friends and the public that he has disposed of the FOUNDRY BUSINESS, with the Furnaces and valuable Patterns, to Messrs. WILLIAM CARTER and Co., Brass and Iron Founders, Jericho, Oxford.
N.B. The whole is removed to Messrs. Wm. Carter and Co's. Foundry, Oxford.'[1]
1830 Partnership dissolved: William Carter, Charles Grafton, Ralph Baker, and William Biggs, Jericho Foundry, Oxford, and at Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, 28th July — Debts, &c. by Charles Grafton, Ralph Baker, and William Biggs. [2]
1865 'Suicide. — On Thursday last. Richard Burleigh, who for the last fifty years has been employed at the Jericho Foundry, Oxford, committed suicide by hanging himself in a loft attached to the premises. An inquest was held on the body yesterday, by W. Brunner, Esq., Coroner, when it appeared that the deceased had recently given way to intemperate habits, and had become quite an altered character. Verdict, "Temporary Insanity." [3]