Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,260 pages of information and 244,501 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Western Lead Works (London)

From Graces Guide


1823 Advert: 'To Gas and Water Companies, Engineers, Plumbers, Builders Millwrights, Iron Founders, &c.—Stock in Trade of Mr. J. Binns, retiring from Business
—By Mr. LAXTON, upon the Premises, the Western Lead Works, 147, Tottenham-court-road, on MONDAY, Feb. 10, and following Day, at Eleven, for Twelve precisely, LEAD, in 50 tons of sheet, pipe, pumps, and cistern heads, 15 tons of solder, hards and tin, 1 ton of plumbers’ cocks, brass work and pumps, patent portable and other water closets, traps, basins, apparatus, iron piping, pipe moulds and cores, 30 sluice cocks (in sizes from 3 to 13 inches), powerful lathe for cutting square thread screws, and patent rolling engine for making brass Wire, an immense accumulation of valuable patterns for castings, useful wrought and cast iron plumbers casting trough, a quantity of loose building materials, and a variety of articles attached to the trade. May be viewed two days before sale, when Catalogues may be had upon the premises, also at Garraway’s, and Mr.Laxton, Holborn-bars.'[1]


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Sources of Information

  1. Morning Advertiser - Tuesday 4 February 1823