Leeds Bridge Foundry
of Leeds
1802 Advert: 'LEEDS BRIDGE FOUNDRY.
PRYOR and WARWICK having now rendered their FOUNDRY more compleat by the ERECTION of an ENGINE for the purpose of Boring and Turning IRON and BRASS CASTINGS, they hereby inform the Public, that they shall now be enabled to execute Orders with Expedition, and they trust to the Satisfaction of their Employers, on reasonable Terms.
They have also to Lett, which may entered to at Pleasure, TWO Large and New-built ROOMS, Twenty-four Yards by Twelve each, with Seven Horse Power from the aforefaid Engine.
§*§ The Business having increased rapidly, and the Premises being now capable of carrying it on to a great Extent, a Person of Respectability, who could advance a suitable Capital, would be treated with as a Partner, on liberal Terms.'[1]
1807 Sale Notice: 'LEEDS BRIDGE FOUNDRY, Advantageously situated, adjoining the Aire and Calder Navigation. To be SOLD, and entered upon Immediately, The Well-known FOUNDRY, called the Leeds Bridge Iron Foundry, with a Ten Horse Patent Engine, and all other Utensils belonging the same, together with a capital Cupelo. And the spacious Good PREMISES adjoining, containing a large Iron Throw for Boring and Turning upon the most approved Plan, with Three lofty Rooms, Sixty Feet by Thirty Feet each, over the same, very eligible for any Kind »f Machinery, having the Use of the above Engine. Also, THREE DWELLING - HOUSES, contiguous thereto. The above Premises are all newly-created, and in an excellent State of Repair. For Particulars apply to N. Pryor, the Owner, upon the Premises.'[2]