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Lombard Works (brass casting)

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Peter Faulkner

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My great great grandfather Henry Faulkner (1846 to 1888) was listed as a "general brass caster" in several censuses without further detail. He lived in Bishop Street South. The 1879 Post Office Directory clarifies that he was a brass caster working at the "Lombard Works".
Does anyone know what and where the "Lombard Works" was?
On the oldcopper.org site which lists Birmingham brass makers there are few in Lombard Street:

Crofts & Assinder, (C & A), 138, Anglia Street, then Lombard St., Birmingham, founded 1875 still in production of hardware.
Derricourt Brassware Ltd., ‘Lombard™’. Great Tindale Street, Birmingham
Henry H Ellaway, 48/52 Lombard Street, Birmingham, Brassfounders.
Westbury & Griffiths, 78 & 80 Lombard St., Birmingham. Spirit kettle manufacturers

And in Bishop Street:
Essor Manufacturing Co Ltd., Birmingham, 24-28 Bishop St., Birmingham 5, (in 1946) Brassfounders and Engineers founded 1924 from the firms of Henry Ellaway, George Hopkins & Co., and F A Harrison Ltd..
W T George, 123 Bishop Street, Birmingham, lamp maker. Founded by William Thomas George and continued by son William.
Howes & Burley Ltd, 20-34 Bishop Street, 1918, Birmingham. Blow lamps

Does anybody know if any of these companies were popularly known as the "Lombard Works"? Also, any other ideas how I might find out where Henry worked? I've checked the Newspaper Archive with no result other than a Birmingham Daily Post 07 February 1877 showing that donations to a hospital fund came from a large number of people ("The following manufactories have already promised to contribute to the Hospital Saturday collection for the present year") including "Faulkner, Henry, Bishop Street South".

Thanks in advance for any assistance and advice.
 
If you look at the streets section of the 1879 Kellys, you will see that Henry is listed there in Bishop St South at the Lombard Works/ Maybe at one time they were in Lombard st, and moved. This is not uncommon when a firm moved, to name the new works by the old name. It is named , and marked in red on the 1880s map below

Bishop st south 1880s showing Lombard works.jpgKellys 1879.jpg
 
Thanks again Mike, appreciate it.

This tells me where the Lombard Works was, which is great progress, but other than that 1879 directory reference I can't find any other mention of it. Does anyone know anything else about it?
 
In the 1876 & 1878 Kellys, Henry is listed as a brass caster in approximately the same position in the street, next to another factory named the Phoenix works. There is no mention of Henry in the 1873 or earlier directories. It would seem reasonable to assume that , for some reason, he named his works in that way around 1878. It is again listed there , as the Lombard Works, in the 1880 , 1882, 1883 and 1884 Kellys. By the time of the 1888 Kellys, Bishop St south has been absorbed into Bishop St, and renumbering has occurred, .Henry Faulkner is not listed then in Bishop St orn elsewhere in the directory, but it would seem likely that the Lombard works are then occupied by George Henry Wells, perambulator manufacturer
 
Lombard House was/is in Lombard Street, but at the end of the 1880s it was renamed Standard Brass Works.
Crofts and Assinder moved there, from Angelina St, in 1900.
Before that, C&A had started life in Lower Essex St Brassworks in 1875. The old firm became a Limited Co in 1910, and still occupies the now expanded works at Standard Brass works in Lombard St.
Sadly there are no Brass casters left in Lombard St. In the 1960s there were at least 4 and before WWIi considerably more.
 
mikejee said:
In the 1876 & 1878 Kellys, Henry is listed as a brass caster in approximately the same position in the street, next to another factory named the Phoenix works. There is no mention of Henry in the 1873 or earlier directories. It would seem reasonable to assume that , for some reason, he named his works in that way around 1878. It is again listed there , as the Lombard Works, in the 1880 , 1882, 1883 and 1884 Kellys. By the time of the 1888 Kellys, Bishop St south has been absorbed into Bishop St, and renumbering has occurred, .Henry Faulkner is not listed then in Bishop St orn elsewhere in the directory, but it would seem likely that the Lombard works are then occupied by George Henry Wells, perambulator manufacturer
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I have a Henry Faulkner - 1846 , My Nans Grandfather, Married Emily Spender
 
Peter Faulkner said:
My great great grandfather Henry Faulkner (1846 to 1888) was listed as a "general brass caster" in several censuses without further detail. He lived in Bishop Street South. The 1879 Post Office Directory clarifies that he was a brass caster working at the "Lombard Works".
Does anyone know what and where the "Lombard Works" was?
On the oldcopper.org site which lists Birmingham brass makers there are few in Lombard Street:

Crofts & Assinder, (C & A), 138, Anglia Street, then Lombard St., Birmingham, founded 1875 still in production of hardware.
Derricourt Brassware Ltd., ‘Lombard™’. Great Tindale Street, Birmingham
Henry H Ellaway, 48/52 Lombard Street, Birmingham, Brassfounders.
Westbury & Griffiths, 78 & 80 Lombard St., Birmingham. Spirit kettle manufacturers

And in Bishop Street:
Essor Manufacturing Co Ltd., Birmingham, 24-28 Bishop St., Birmingham 5, (in 1946) Brassfounders and Engineers founded 1924 from the firms of Henry Ellaway, George Hopkins & Co., and F A Harrison Ltd..
W T George, 123 Bishop Street, Birmingham, lamp maker. Founded by William Thomas George and continued by son William.
Howes & Burley Ltd, 20-34 Bishop Street, 1918, Birmingham. Blow lamps

Does anybody know if any of these companies were popularly known as the "Lombard Works"? Also, any other ideas how I might find out where Henry worked? I've checked the Newspaper Archive with no result other than a Birmingham Daily Post 07 February 1877 showing that donations to a hospital fund came from a large number of people ("The following manufactories have already promised to contribute to the Hospital Saturday collection for the present year") including "Faulkner, Henry, Bishop Street South".

Thanks in advance for any assistance and advice.
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Hi Peter , If it's the same Henry - he is also my Great , great grandfather - Sibling to William, George, and Sarah. - so you are related to Henry, Emily, Hannah, Alice, Beattie. or Arthur - Desperate for photos, especially Henry. Steve
 
My grandfather Alban Timms worked at Lombard Rim & Tube Co Lombard St in June 1921. Does anyone know anything about this company.
 
I can’t believe you found so much detail in so short a time. I now know Lombard Rim and Tube Co was located at 83 but by 1950 it was a wireWorks. I know that when the slump came in the early 1930’s Alban lost his job and never regained full employment, he applied for unemployment benefit's but was told he had 2 single daughters in full employment, they can look after you, perhaps Lombard Rim and Tube closed at that time. By September 1939 my Grandfather was a bill deliverer and Cycle Rim Filer unemployed.
They were hard times, he was a good man I knew him as a boy in the early 1950’s
 
Some adverts from the 1920s - may be of interest? They also had a London office and showroom at the time. Adverts mention that they also made rims for motor bikes & sidecars and prams.
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