London 1981

Peter MARSHALL


Thames Bank Iron Company, from North Bank, Regents Canal, Westminster, 1981
29a-52: canal, bridge warehouse,

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The Thames Bank Iron Company were Ironfounders with premises in Old Jamaica Wharf, Upper Ground on the south bank of the Thames. They moved to North Bank, off Lodge Road, in Lisson Grove where they overlooked the Regents Canal in 1926. The buildings here were demolished around 1994, though a report in the GLIAS newsletter in 2011 suggested that a lower part of the wall may remain.
 
They made iron pipes for gas and water, boilers and other similar items, including some street lamp columns, radiators (of the Latest and Best Patterns' - they were a pioneer of ventilating radiators) as well as 'Sanitary Castings'. The telegraphic address of the company in Upper Ground was "HOT WATER, LONDON'. They were the 'Sole Manufactuers of Lyon's "Patent" Gas-Main Syphons' though I have no idea what these were.
 
Companies House list the company, which began business in the middle of the 19th century has having been incorporated as a private limited company in 1911 and dissolved in 2013. They were still in business here as a Plumbers' Merchants in 1987.