A trade card showing the forwarding yard at Spring Hill in 1909.
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Piggotts and Son, Spring Hill
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superdad3
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What a great picture. Thomas Piggott & Co. was founded back in 1822 and rapidly expanded including many takeovers. By the 1880s sites included:
The Gas holder is a reminder of what used to be such a common feature in towns all over the country.
- Spring Hill Works (Gas engineers, ironfounders, boiler, bridge, girder and gasholder makers).
- Atlas Works, Oozells Street (Engine builders, hydraulic and general engineers, coppersmiths and ironfounders. Note: see also Atlas Engine Co and Duvallon and Lloyd).
- Hooper Street Works (waterworks engineers, boiler makers).
The Gas holder is a reminder of what used to be such a common feature in towns all over the country.
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Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
Feb 1906, The Engineer.
“Thomas Piggott and Co., Limited, of Spring Hill, Birmingham have recently secured orders for twenty pressed steel standard tanks for Buenos Aires, a riveted steel chimney 6ft. diameter by 125ft. high, a pit head frame for South Wales, pressed culvert pipes 36in. diameter for South Africa, and riveted rectangular flues for Newcastle power station.”
“Thomas Piggott and Co., Limited, of Spring Hill, Birmingham have recently secured orders for twenty pressed steel standard tanks for Buenos Aires, a riveted steel chimney 6ft. diameter by 125ft. high, a pit head frame for South Wales, pressed culvert pipes 36in. diameter for South Africa, and riveted rectangular flues for Newcastle power station.”