Ebenezer Morris
of Lewes and Eastbourne
1835 Advert: 'CAST IRON PIPES. LEWES FOUNDRY. E MORRIS having purchased (of the Contractors for supplying the Lewes Water Works) a considerable quantity of CAST IRON PIPES, offers them to the Public at very reduced prices.
E. M. Embraces this opportunity of thanking his friends for past favours, and of informing them he has found it necessary, to very greatly ENLARGE HIS FOUNDRY, that he is now in a situation to undertake work of any magnitude, and being very particular in retaining only superior workmen, he confidently hopes for continuance of the same patronage he has for so many years experienced.
Cliff, Lewes, May 1835.'[1]
1937 'FORMER LEWES RESIDENT - DEATH OF MRS. R. MORRIS. The origin of two Lewes street names - Foundry-lane and Morris-road — is recalled by the death on Sunday of Reginald Morris, an old Lewes resident, at her home, "Woodbridge," 58 Whitley-road, Eastbourne. Her late husband, Mr Reginald Morris, was a son of Mr James Morris, of the firm of E. Morris and Sons, who were iron founders and ironmongers in the Cliffe and at Eastbourne.....'[2]
The Lewes foundry was located on the south side of Cliffe (a street immediately east of the road bridge across the river. Foundry Lane headed south from Cliffe to the river.