Building MPM817 - BRASS FOUNDRY (BUILDING NUMBER 1/142 EAST END (PSTO (N) 34 STORE)

Iron and brass foundry built 1848 by Captain H James RE. Now a workshop. The cast-iron traveller supports on the west former traveller road are inscribed "JA BALDY IRON FOUNDER/LNDPORT/1864".

History from listing record (see DPM250 for full entry):

Used temporarily for iron-founding before the construction of the adjacent iron foundry ( qv) from 1857. Originally with brass furnaces along the centre partition wall, drawn by 4 central chimneys on iron frames, and 2 iron cupola furnaces and casting pits in the foundry section. The building was, with James' No.2 Ship Shop and Greene's Iron Foundry (qqv), an integral element in the dockyard expansion of the 1840s which enabled the yard to deal with the new steam-powered ships which the navy was beginning to employ.

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A gantry crane within the foundy is dated 1860, and the main entrance has been strengthened by cast-iron pillars by J. A. Baldy of Landport dated 1864. The building has been used for many years as the steel trimming shop.

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<1> Historic England, The National Heritage List for England (Index). SPM35.

<2> Moore, Pamela (ed), 1984, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (Bibliographic reference). SPM470.