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A bit of history to start with i think, as usual shamelessly copy and pasted.
Of all the metal-working industries which developed in Warrington in the late 18th centuries, none was more important than wire-drawing. The industry came to dominate the town's employment in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The origins of wire manufacture were in small-scale production in backyard workshops and foundries.
The growth of the wire industry in Warrington was aided by the demand for wire products in many other industries and in agriculture. For example in the 1880s and 1890s barbed wire was adopted in agriculture across the globe, particualrly in big farming areas of North America, Australia and South Africa.
Wire-working was already established in Warrington in the 1770s. The well-known firms that came to dominate the trade appeared towards the end of the 18th century. William Houghton had a wireworks in Tanners Lane by 1775 and in 1799 Nathaniel Greening came to the town and set up a small factory. In 1805 Greening was joined by a new partner, John Rylands, and in 1817 the partners moved to a new site at the end of Church Street. By the late 1830s the Church Street works was one of the largest industrial concerns in Warrington.
Visited With Lawrence.
Already part demolished to make way for a persimmon homes development the Brittania works must have been absolutely mammoth in its pomp, despite as i say a large chunk of it having gone already its still a very good sized explore and a very worthy one at that, especially the records room which must have one of the most complete set of part untrashed records ive ever seen at any site and this despite cheshire county council removing a lot of it in an attempt to save the archives.
The strange thing was the only ways into the the records rooms were either up the ladder at the end of this room or from outside via a now demolished fire escape.
Workers records.
Customer records, i recognise a few of these as should our resident coal experts
The records room, stacks of phones, typewriters, records of all sorts and all sorts of other miscellaneous equipment, i nearly had a fit when i saw this room, to say i was in heaven would be an understatement, although i had also earlier seen both a new budenberg and found some great porn (yes i know these two things in my book are probably disturbingly close to each other) so that did explain part of it at least.
To be honest i took that many pics in the record rooms i could have put a report up on those two rooms alone
Of all the metal-working industries which developed in Warrington in the late 18th centuries, none was more important than wire-drawing. The industry came to dominate the town's employment in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The origins of wire manufacture were in small-scale production in backyard workshops and foundries.
The growth of the wire industry in Warrington was aided by the demand for wire products in many other industries and in agriculture. For example in the 1880s and 1890s barbed wire was adopted in agriculture across the globe, particualrly in big farming areas of North America, Australia and South Africa.
Wire-working was already established in Warrington in the 1770s. The well-known firms that came to dominate the trade appeared towards the end of the 18th century. William Houghton had a wireworks in Tanners Lane by 1775 and in 1799 Nathaniel Greening came to the town and set up a small factory. In 1805 Greening was joined by a new partner, John Rylands, and in 1817 the partners moved to a new site at the end of Church Street. By the late 1830s the Church Street works was one of the largest industrial concerns in Warrington.
Visited With Lawrence.
Already part demolished to make way for a persimmon homes development the Brittania works must have been absolutely mammoth in its pomp, despite as i say a large chunk of it having gone already its still a very good sized explore and a very worthy one at that, especially the records room which must have one of the most complete set of part untrashed records ive ever seen at any site and this despite cheshire county council removing a lot of it in an attempt to save the archives.
The strange thing was the only ways into the the records rooms were either up the ladder at the end of this room or from outside via a now demolished fire escape.
Workers records.
Customer records, i recognise a few of these as should our resident coal experts
The records room, stacks of phones, typewriters, records of all sorts and all sorts of other miscellaneous equipment, i nearly had a fit when i saw this room, to say i was in heaven would be an understatement, although i had also earlier seen both a new budenberg and found some great porn (yes i know these two things in my book are probably disturbingly close to each other) so that did explain part of it at least.
To be honest i took that many pics in the record rooms i could have put a report up on those two rooms alone
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