Conservatories, hot water apparatus and bandstands

Last week we learned about the chrysanthemum and celery shows that took place in Loughborough and nearby. One of the people mentioned in relation to the Leicester and Leicestershire Chrysanthemum and Celery Society Exhibition of 1883 was Walter Chapman Burder, who at the time of the shows lived at 153 Park Road, but who later moved to Field House. This show took place only a year before Burder took over the ownership of the horticultural engineering business of Thomas Messenger.

It comes as no surprise that Messengers placed advertisements in a variety of publications - newspapers, magazines and their own catalogues - for their products. This example is from the Gardeners' Chronicle of 24 November 1883:

But what of this product, referred to as the Loughborough hot water apparatus, which was advertised in the same magazine as the Messenger greenhouse above?

Is this also a Messenger product? The history of Deane & Co. is well covered on a site about the Greenwich Park bandstand, which was produced by the company in 1880. Interesting that the company was involved in the creation of the bandstand: ours in Queen's Park, which was installed in 1902, was created by Hill & Smith of Brierley Hill in the West Midlands, and was in commemoration of the coronation of Edward VII. When Queen's Park was extended, the bandstand was moved from its original position, which was close to Granby Street, to its current position in 1908. 

Hill & Smith actually created just over 40 bandstands across the country, some as far away as Exmouth and Bishop Auckland, and some as close as Kettering, Northampton, and Swadlincote. Easton Gardens, one of two gardens created in Easton on the Isle of Portland, in commemoration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee (although created somewhat later, around 1904) also has a bandstand that was created by Hill & Smith. The gardens also has a clock tower, the tower of which was made from the local Portland stone, and the clock also houses a bell cast by Taylors of Loughborough. Portland stone is also used in the construction of Loughborough's carillon.

   

Posted by lynneaboutloughborough 25 July 2021

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Foundries in Loughborough

At one time there were many foundries in Loughborough and evidence of their work still abounds around Loughborough

In ‘Secret Loughborough’ I suggested that if one is looking for evidence of history, one must look up, down and all around! There is a short entry for local foundries, covering Messenger, Star Foundry, John Jones, Taylors and Beeby & Henton, and evidence of the work of these companies can be found up, down and all around Loughborough. Of course, not everything was locally produced and there are also examples around town of work of non-local foundries.

Let’s start with the local ones. Here are some examples, some are well-known names in the foundry business, but I'm not sure if some of those embossed with the word 'builder' were actually the producers, or the installers:

John Jones

Edwin Cook (company was the Star Foundry)

Messenger

Thomas Barker

Hammond

A J Wileman

Corah

Keightley Builders

Loughborough College

This one was presented to the parish church

A selection of Loughborough Corporation items

And made by companies outside the area, but found in Loughborough, we have:

Bayliss, Wolverhampton

Cross & Sansam, Shepshed

Cort & Paul, Leicester

Butterley

J M Bull, Melton Mowbray

Wiley and Co. Exeter

Corporation of Leicester

And a few others!!

A medley

I actually have a feeling this might be a Jones, and there's one at the Leicester Road cemetery

And this is the one that got away!!! The former gates to Southfield Park on Leicester Road. If anyone knows who the makers were (I did spot it a long time ago, but omitted to take a photograph - and then they were gone!) do please let me know!!

Here are some pics of various foundries, some working, some long-since deserted:

Blists Hill

Deserted brass foundry at Hayle, Cornwall

Deserted ironworks at Clydach, South Wales

Deserted ironworks at Kilgetty, South West Wales

The last working bellfoundry in the UK, Taylors of Loughborough

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