Vulcan Ironworks
Stupidly, I made no note of where I'd found this one - shot only minutes before I reached Rose Lane - but I suspect it's in the Cathedral Close, where there are several others from the same foundry, each opening with a pair of hinges at the left, rather than lifting out.
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The name "Vulcan Ironworks" (sometimes Iron Works) seems to have been adopted in 1872 - when Messrs Sturgess and Towlson, iron and brass founders, took on the new premises that let them expand their business.
It was only the shortest of moves, within Coslany - from near St Mary's church (off Muspole Street, where there's now "Wright's Foundry Yard") to St Miles' (today, St Michael's), on a site - across Oak Street from that church's west door - had once been occupied by Clarke's brewery.
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As well as various street furniture and railings for several churchyards, Sturgess and Towlson also produced many types of steam engines and boilers, hydraulic pumps and presses - and, in 1879, a 45ft steel-hulled steam launch, "The Emma and Jeannie", driven by a pair of engines that could develop 50 horse power.
Vulcan Ironworks
Stupidly, I made no note of where I'd found this one - shot only minutes before I reached Rose Lane - but I suspect it's in the Cathedral Close, where there are several others from the same foundry, each opening with a pair of hinges at the left, rather than lifting out.
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The name "Vulcan Ironworks" (sometimes Iron Works) seems to have been adopted in 1872 - when Messrs Sturgess and Towlson, iron and brass founders, took on the new premises that let them expand their business.
It was only the shortest of moves, within Coslany - from near St Mary's church (off Muspole Street, where there's now "Wright's Foundry Yard") to St Miles' (today, St Michael's), on a site - across Oak Street from that church's west door - had once been occupied by Clarke's brewery.
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As well as various street furniture and railings for several churchyards, Sturgess and Towlson also produced many types of steam engines and boilers, hydraulic pumps and presses - and, in 1879, a 45ft steel-hulled steam launch, "The Emma and Jeannie", driven by a pair of engines that could develop 50 horse power.