Monument record 7206/37 - Albion Works

Foundry, Cambridge Road/Victoria Road/Midland Road
'Albion Foundry (Brass and Iron)' shown on Ordnance Survey maps of 1885 and 1900. A number of large buildings indicated on plot of land between Cambridge Road, Victoria Road and Midland Road. By 1926 these works were 'Albion Works (Engineering)', but one of the large buildings had gone. A number of the original buildings still survive and are in industrial usage, but others have been demolished. Number of industrial buildings fronting on to Cambridge Street which were possibly associated with this complex. (1)
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1869 - 1920- George Radford Mather
1928- Mather (Welllingborough) Ltd
Surviving examples of the foundry's work can be seen at:-
a) Earls Barton. Covers in path in London End (SP 850 635)
b) Iron railings and gate in front of The Limes, High Street, Wollaston (SP 906 627)

<1> Ballinger J., 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Wellingborough (Industrial), (unchecked) (Digital archive). SNN100290.

<2> STARMER G., 1981, A Check-List of Northamptonshire Foundries, P. 22 (Extract). SNN103905.

Record last edited

May 4 2000 12:00AM