John Lysaght's Bristol Works
John Lysaght's Bristol Works Ltd of Bristol.
1857 John Lysaght established a company in Bristol to galvanise sheet iron - see John Lysaght
1860 Lysaght established the St Vincent's works, also known as the Netham Ironworks, occupying 4 acres of what had been the St Philip's works of Acraman and Morgan.
By the 1890s they fully occupied the 13 acre site. The flamboyant office building dates from 1886 [1], and is now home to the head office of renewable energy consultancy GL Garrad Hassan.
1947 John Lysaght's Bristol Works Ltd was formed as a private company.
1961 Iron masters, galvanisers, constructional engineers, manufacturing agricultural requisites, wire netting, chain link fencing, tanks and cisterns, paint finishing systems. 1,500 employees. [2]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ 'Under His Own Sheets: The Lysaght Story' by Raymond Holland BIAS Journal 30 1997 (Bristol Industrial Archaeological Society)
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE