E.C & J Keay of Birmingham and Darlaston

[A Sparks]

An interesting company that doesn't appear to have been posted before, I came across the name today when waiting for the Circle Line at Kensington High Street Station!

I just happened to look down at the iron column holding up the glass roof and the name and location of the company on it caught my eye.
I've just looked it up on the Internet and found this information....

F. H. Lloyd

 

[mikejee]

From the entry in the 1910 Kellys, it wouls appear that the works were in Darlaston, with a commercial office in Birmingham

Kcay C. C. & «!• Limited, manufacturers of bridges, girders, roofs, coal wagons & all kinds colliery iron work,hu rdles & fencing gates, Prince's chambers, Corporation street (T A " Keay ; " T N's 430 (two lines) Central); & at James Bridge works, Darlaston & Cyclops works, West
Bromwich

 

[Pedrocut]

E.C & J Keay of Birmingham and Darlaston

E. C. and J. Keay - Graces Guide

 

[Pedrocut]

Birmingham Post, July 1939.

 

[mikejee]

The 1904 Staffs directory lists is Darlaston:
Keay E. C. & J. Lim. iron & steel bridge & iron church & house builders, James Bridge works; head office, Prince's Chambers, Corporation Street, Birmingham.
So they also built iron churches and houses.This was before the iron houses an example of which is ar the BCLM, the building of which has been described as experimental

 

[Pedrocut]

An interesting company that doesn't appear to have been posted before, I came across the name today when waiting for the Circle Line at Kensington High Street Station!

I just happened to look down at the iron column holding up the glass roof and the name and location of the company on it caught my eye.
I've just looked it up on the Internet and found this information....

F. H. Lloyd

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Someone else noticed in Ceylon !

“…across the Kelani Ganga, and here, we come across an iron logo attached to a beam of the century old bridge, that mentioned the name of the British contractor of the bridge and the railway line. It reads thus: ‘E.C.& J. Keay. Ld. 1902, Engineers and Contractors, Darlaston, Birmingham.”
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