W. and D. Bailey
William Bailey and Daniel Bailey, of 272 High Holborn, London
1818 Patent. WILLIAM BAILEY, High Holborn, Middlesex, Ironmonger; for certain improvements sashes, sky-lights, and frames, generally used for the purpose of receiving, holding, and containing glass for the admission light, and the exclusion of rain and snow and also for making roofs or coverings for houses and various other buildings.[1]
1823 Listed in Kent's Original London Director as Wm. & D. Bailey, furnishing ironmongers.
1825 Listed as iron merchants and patentees of sash for curvilinear hot-houses [2]
W. and D. Bailey developed the wrought-iron glazing bar invented in 1816 by John Claudius Loudon. In 1818, they entered a patent on the invention, and subsequently erected a number of remarkable curvilinear glasshouses. One of the earliest surviving examples is at Downton Castle in Shropshire. It was erected in 1820 for Thomas Andrew Knight, second President of the Royal Horticultural Society.[3]
1826 Designed the remarkable dome-shaped iron and glass Bretton Hall Conservatory, featuring rolled wrought iron glazing bars invented by John Claudius Loudon.[4]
1831 Wm. Bailey and Daniel Bailey, of 272, High Holborn. ironmongers.[5]
1837 D. and F. Bailey's, 272, High Holborn.[6]
1852 Mr. William Bailey, engineer, late of 272, High Holborn, at marriage of his daughter Mary Ann.[7]
1866 Charles Bailey - an ironmonger, living at No. 272, High Holborn.[8]
1874 D. and E. Bailey, 272, High Holborn, London.[9]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Scots Magazine - Thursday 01 October 1818
- ↑ Pigot & Co.'s New Commercial Directory of Scotland for 1825-6.
- ↑ [1] Occasional Papers from the RHS Lindley Library, Volume 17, October 2019, The architectural, horticultural and social history of glasshouses
- ↑ [2] THE INFLUENCE OF ROBERT MARNOCK ON BRETTON HALL, 1825–34 by JAN WOUDSTRA: Garden History, Vol. 41, No. 1 (SUMMER 2013), pp. 96-115
- ↑ Englishman - Sunday 23 October 1831
- ↑ Weekly True Sun - Sunday 05 November 1837
- ↑ Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 01 July 1852
- ↑ Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper - Sunday 10 June 1866
- ↑ Norwich Mercury - Wednesday 25 March 1874