Marsden Brothers (Liverpool)
of 23 Dublin Street and 15 Argyle Street, Liverpool
1854 Adverts 'ON SALE. Several tons BRASS-MOULDERS' ASHES. Apply 15, ARGYLE-STREET, Liverpool.'[1]
1858 Advert: 'MARSDEN BROTHERS, GENERAL METAL MERCHANTS, CLARENCE BRASS FOUNDRY AND COPPER WORKS,
NORTH WORKS: 23, DUBLIN-STREET, LIVERPOOL,
BRASS CASTINGS, COPPER STEAM PIPES, &c., MANUFACTURERS OF ALL KINDS OF BRASS AND COPPER WORK, SHEATHING, NAILS,
SOUTH WORKS : 15, ARGYLE-STREET, LIVERPOOL. [2]
1859 Advert: 'Copper Brewing Pans. On Sale, a second-hand Pan. Apply at Madden [sic] Brothers, copper works, 15 Argyle-street, Liverpool. [3]
1875 Advert: 'TO BREWERS.-On Sale, New Copper Brewing Pan. For particulars address Ellis Marsden, 15, Argyle-street, Liverpool.
LEATHER.- On Sale. New Hose Butt Roundings. Apply at 15, Argyle-street, Liverpool. [4]
1901 Sale Notice: 'BY ELLIS MARSDEN, Limited, Engineers and Coppersmiths, established on the present premises 1792.
By order of the Receiver.
To Shipbuilders, Engineers, Machinery Dealers, and Others.
Highly important Sale of the whole of the Machinery, Plant, and Stock-in-Trade of this old-established Firm, who conuct a most lucrative business with the leading shipbuilders and Tradesmen of the Port. The whole of the Plant is now in full working order, forming a most important investment for capitalists, and will first be offered complete as a going CONCERN in one lot, on Monday, tha 11th March inst. at Eleven o'clock prompt: if not so disposed of, will then be dispersed in detail according to catalogue.
GEORGE TURNER & SONS are instructed to Sell by Auction, on Monday next, 11th instant, and Following Days, at Eleven o'clock each morning, on the Premises, 15, Argyle-street, Liverpool, the whole of the Important BRASSFOUNDERS' PLANT. MACHINERY, and STOCK-IN-TRADE, Including upright beam engine, about 10-horse power, pair of horizontal boilars, travelling derricks, hand crane. VALUABLE HYDRAULIC SENDING MACHINE, trucks, three crane gibs, Players' steam hammer, hydraulic pump.
ABOUT 25 TONS OF BRASS AND COPPER, in finished tubes, ingots, and rough. 4cwt. brass cannon, rolls of copper and brass wire for rivet making, some TWENTY CAPITAL SCREW-CUTTING AND OTHER LATHES, the whole of the shafting, with pulleys and leather bands throughout, new engineering, and other tools,
POWERFUL DRILLING & OTHER MACHINES. SEVERAL THOUSAND MODERN WOOD PATTERNS, Made for the leading Shipbuilders, new Ship's Stores, &c.
HOWARD'S TIME CLOCK FOR 150 MEN, Iron Fireproof Safe by Phillips, Oak Cylinder Desk, Office Fixtures, &c. On view on Saturday next, the 9th instant, from Ten o'clock to Four o'clock, and on the mornings of sale. Catalogues on the premises, or from the Auctioneers (established 1810), 44, Church-street, Liverpool. Telephone 1897.'[5]
The 1890/1893 25" O.S. map here shows a narrow Foundry on the north side of Argyle Street, close to the junction with Campbell Street. It was 1/4 mile due east of the north end of Salthouse Dock.
Remarkably, the Argyle Street building has survived, converted to flats, in a commendable redevelopment of an area of the city-centre. Google Maps image here (2020). Immediately alongside is the 1861 Bridewell building. The building is a typical Liverpool warehouse building of c.1800, with six storeys, probably not ideal for a foundry!