Thomas Pearson and Co
of the Liver Foundry, Parliament Street and Boundary Street (same street, renamed?), Liverpool
1814 Thomas Pearson was in business as a millwright in Liverpool
1844 New Locomotive. 'On Monday last, the Liver, a new locomotive engine, built on an improved principle by Mr. Thomas Pearson, of the Liver Foundry, Parliament-street, Liverpool (and to be employed in the transit of coals from Wigan to Preston and Lancaster), was tested with thirty-one loaded waggons, averaging six tons each (including waggons), up the incline from Wigan to the Boar's Head, and with thirty-five waggons up Coppal incline, which she performed with the utmost apparent ease at the low pressure of 70lbs. to the inch - thus accomplishing a feat which has hitherto not been found practicable by the most noted engines which have yet run on the North Union line. In the coarse of another fortnight, when all has worked smooth, there is not the slightest doubt but the Liver will take 40 waggons, or about 250 tons, up the incline, which 1 in 100.'[1]
1847 Brick Making Machine. 'A brick-making machine, of simple construction, has recently been completed Messrs. Thomas Pearson and Co., Liver Foundry, Parliament-street, Liverpool. It calculated that the machine, which completes two at the same time, will turn out, on an average, thirty per minute. The inventor, Mr. Farnsworth, an enterprising mechanic, who was formerly employed at Messrs. Fawcet, Preston, and Cos., this town, has had the machine secured by patent. We have heard that a railway contractor, who has immediately to manufacture 2,000,000 bricks for railway in construction, has purchased the machine.'[2]
1855 Shown as Thomas Pearson and Co, Liver Iron Works, Boundary street, Liverpool.[3]
1860 Adverts: 'TO STEAMSHIP-OWNERS, BOILER-MAKERS, &c. TO be LET, a very commodious BOILER YARD, with all the necessary Buildings, Smithy, &c., in close proximity to the Steam Docks, North End. Ready for occupation on the 1st July. Apply to THOMAS PEARSON and Co., Liver Ironworks, Boundary-street.
TO ENGINEERS, SHIPWRIGHTS, AND OTHERS, REQUIRING COMMODIOUS PREMISES. TO be LET, the BUILDINGS, with YARD and OFFICES, forming the Erecting Shop, Turning Shop, and Smithy of the Liver Ironworks, Boundary-street. Apply to THPMAS PEARSON and Co., on the Premises.'[4]
The 1890/1893 25" O.S. map here[5] shows a small engineering and millwright works and adjacent iron and brass foundry on the south side of Boundary Street, a short distance to the east of Boundary Bridge which crosses the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. It is not known whether this is the same factory.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser - Wednesday 23 October 1844
- ↑ Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Wednesday 22 September 1847
- ↑ Liverpool Daily Post - Saturday 21 July 1855
- ↑ The Albion, 4 June 1860
- ↑ [1] National Library of Scotland: Old Maps: Lancashire CVI.6 Surveyed 1890, Published 1893