Pontifex and Wood

1868.

1876.

1889. Cold storage room, Nottingham.

1889.

Lead merchants, iron founders, engineers, millwrights, copper smiths, refrigerator and boiler makers, of Farringdon Works, Shoe Lane, London.

of Garratt Mills, Wandsworth.

of Millwall.

and later of Union foundry, Derby..

Maker of stationary engines, sugar machinery and distilling plant.

1788 Company founded when the premises in Shoe Lane were erected

1825 William Pontifex, Sons and Wood were coppersmiths, of Shoe Lane, Holborn, London

1841 Pontifex (Edmund and William) and Wood were millwrights

1850 Pontifex and Wood were recorded as receiving lead ores at St Katharines Dock

1851 Award at the 1851 Great Exhibition for sugar apparatus, pumps, etc. See details at 1851 Great Exhibition: Reports of the Juries: Class VI.

1856 Patent to Edmund Alfred Pontifex, of Pontifex and Wood of Shoe Lane, chemical manufacturer, for improvement in manufacture of tartaric acid, citric acid and salts

1859 Patent Edmund Alfred Pontifex, of Pontifex and Wood of Shoe Lane, engineers and coppersmiths, on external surface condensers

1860 E and W Pontifex and J Wood of Farringdon Works, Shoe Lane, wrote to the Inland Revenue about the number of stamps needed on goods

1865 Contract to supply sugar refinery machinery to the new company International Sugar Refineries Co Ltd

1868 Shipbuilders of Millwall

1876 "Hamper's Patent Fountain" - described as brewers' engineers, millwrights, coppersmiths, ironfounders etc

1880 With other paint manufacturers, petitioned the Board of Trade about legal measures of paint

1885 Had patented an ice-making machine some years before; supplied cold store plant to Great Northern Ice Co Ltd of Great Grimsby

1887 Converted into a limited company

1888 Voluntary liquidation of the company supervised by the court

1889 Cold storage rooms built at Nottingham (see illustration)

1890 All of the Millwall white lead, colour, varnish, sheet lead and lead piping business had been sold to Millwall Lead Co Ltd; the engineering business would continue at Shoe Lane.

1891 Supplied a refrigerator and coolers to Burntisland Oil Co

c.1892 Haslam Foundry and Engineering Co merged with Pontifex and Wood

1895 Locke, Lancaster and W. W. and R. Johnson and Sons acquired the business and factory of the Millwall Lead Co (formerly Pontifex and Wood).

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• Note:

Another Pontifex business, Henry Pontifex and Sons, was also in Shoe Lane, having been established in 1796

1862 The partnership of H. D. Pontifex and C. Pontifex, coppersmiths of Shoe Lane, was dissolved

1869 The partnership of H. D. Pontifex, C. Pontifex junior and F. Pontifex, coppersmiths of Shoe Lane, was dissolved

See Also

• 1841 Post Office London Directory
• 1851 Great Exhibition: Morning Chronicle Review
• 1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class VI.: Pontifex and Wood
• 1851 Great Exhibition: Reports of the Juries: Class VI.
• 1851 Post Office London Directory
• 1861 Post Office London Directory
• 1870 Post Office London Directory
• 1874 London: Engineers - Mechanical
• 1890 White's Directory of Devonshire
• 1914 Whitakers Red Book: B
• Alfred Seale Haslam
• Burntisland Oil Works
• Colthurst and Harding
• E. and W. Pontifex and Co
• Edmund Alfred Pontifex
• Edward Furness
• Engineering 1900 Jul-Dec: Index: Addresses of Advertisers
• Engineering 1905 Jan-Jun: Index: Directory of Advertisers
• Engineering 1907 Jul-Dec: Index: Addresses of Advertisers
• Engineering 1914 Jan-Jun: Index: Addresses of Advertisers
• Farringdon Works
• Harry Frank Stanley
• Haslam Foundry and Engineering Co
• James Matthew Cole
• John Arthur Phillips
• John Barton (1814-1902)
• John Henry Fooks Bale
• John Pontifex
• Locke, Lancaster and W. W. and R. Johnson and Sons
• Millwall Lead Co
• The Engineer 1862/04/25
• The Engineer 1863/05/15
• The Engineer 1876/07/14
• The Engineer 1879/11/21
• The Engineer 1881/11/25
• The Engineer 1889/03/22
• The Engineer 1889/09/27
• The Engineer 1890/08/15
• The Engineer 1891/06/12
• The Engineer 1891/06/26
• The Engineer 1894/04/13
• The Engineer 1894/04/27
• The Engineer 1897/01/01
• The Engineer 1899/01/06
• The Engineer 1900/01/05
• William Barrie