Le Grand and Sutcliff

Pump with 1878 nameplate in Beard's Yard, Langport, Somerset. See text

1889. From Engineering of 13th December.

March 1903.

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1919.

of 100 Bunhill Row, London, E.C. (1889), artesian well drillers and contractors

1872 Company founded.

1880 Le Grand and Sutcliff listed as providing tube wells.

1900 Advertised: "Abyssinian Tube Wells (Norton's Patent)"

1914 Death of Robert Sutcliff in his 68th year

By 1919 Also made turnstiles (see advert)

1920 Private company presumably Le Grand, Sutcliff and Gell

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• 1878 'LANGPORT. The men employed in boring for water in Beard's-yard, Bow-street, came to good water at a depth of about 90 feet. A pump at this spot will be a great boon to the inhabitants of the lower end of the town.'

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Sources of Information

• 1894 Brewer's Exhibition. Showed appliances for sinking well.
• The Engineer 1894/10/26 p 357.