John Lysaght's Bristol Works
John Lysaght's Bristol Works Ltd of Bristol.
1857 John Lysaght established a company in Bristol to galvanise sheet iron - see John Lysaght
1860 Lysaght established the St Vincent's works, occupying 4 acres of what had been the St Philip's works of Acraman and Morgan.
By the 1890s they fully occupied the 13 acre site. The flamboyant office building dates from 1886 [1], and is now home to the head office of renewable energy consultancy GL Garrad Hassan.
They also owned the larger Netham Ironworks, shown on the 1902/4 O.S. map as Netham Constructional Steel Works, located by Netham Weir, at the junction of the River Avon and the Feeder Canal. See here for a brief history of the business and an artist's aerial view of the Netham works.
1908 Description of the Netham Works in The Engineer. In recent years the copany had constructed and erected the roofing of the Buenos Ayres Produce Market, covering about 9 acres; the iron annd steel work for the new harbour works at Gibraltar, amounting to about 12,000 tons, the whole of which was erected by the firm.[2]
1920 John Lysaght was acquired by Guest Keen Nettlefolds
1947 John Lysaght's Bristol Works Ltd was formed as a private company.
1961 Iron masters, galvanisers, constructional engineers, manufacturing agricultural requisites, wire netting, chain link fencing, tanks and cisterns, paint finishing systems. 1,500 employees. [3]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ 'Under His Own Sheets: The Lysaght Story' by Raymond Holland BIAS Journal 30 1997 (Bristol Industrial Archaeological Society)
- ↑ The Engineer, 31 July 1908
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE