The large building at the junction of Beevor Street and Rope Walk was at one time Henry Poppleton's sweet factory.

It was later used by James Dawson, industrial belt manufacturer, and it was this firm that built a new factory on the site in 1960.

Remains of the Stamp End Works.

"Clayton & Shuttleworth was an engineering company located at Stamp End Works, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.

The company was established in 1842 when Nathaniel Clayton (1811-1890) formed a partnership with his brother-in-law, Joseph Shuttleworth (1819-83)"

"In 1845 the company built its first portable steam engine, and in 1849 its first threshing machine. These products became the mainstay of its business"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_%26_Shuttleworth  

Listed in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 :-

"Clayton & Shuttleworth Limited, agricultural & general engineers & threshing machine makers, Stamp End works. T A "Claytons, Lincoln;" T N 43 (4 lines)"

DB 11 July 2019

An earlier view when a little more of the buildings remained.

14 May 2012 

The last of Lincoln's traditional factory chimneys being partially dismantled.

Reported by CityX 26 September 2019 that "A landmark chimney in Lincoln, which was decommissioned last year, will lose six metres from its height due to being "unrepairable" ...

Fenner Precision Polymers retired the landmark chimney at its Lincoln site after more than 100 years in September 2018"

https://cityx.co.uk/2019/09/landmark-lincoln-chimney-to-lose-top-six-metres-after-being-deemed-unrepairable/ 

In 1865 "James Dawson originally set up a business making leather boots but later moved on to make leather belting for local agricultural machinery".

https://www.james-dawson.com/history/ 

Listed in Kelly's Directory 1913 "Dawson James & Son Limited, machine belting makers, New Boultham. T N 39" 

DB 19 October 2019 

This small mill, built in 1798, has 4 sails and only 3 floors.

During the nineteenth century it was one of 8 mills along a short stretch of Burton Road to the north-west of the city.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph 1941

Ellis Mill was worked commercially until 1941.

It was restored by Lincoln Civic Trust in the 1970s and is regularly worked by volunteers.

Location of mill: SK 971 722

Peter Kirk Collection, 1999

The mill suffered a disastrous fire in the early 1970s but was fully restored in 1978-81 by the Lincoln Civic Trust to mark the Queen's Silver Jubilee.

Ken Redmore

Detail of sails, cap and fantail

Peter Kirk Collection, 1999

Remains of Bracebridge Gas Works viewed from Clayton Road.

Kelly's Directory 1937 states :-

"The Gas undertaking was aquired by the Corporation in 1885 from the Gas Light and Coke Company, which was formed in 1829.

The original works in Carholme road, were converted into a distribution center and the works at Bracebridge were rebuilt in 1932.

The present output is about 750 million cubic feet yearly".  

DB 22 January 2019

The former entrance to Grundy's No 1 ironstone mine, between Crofton Road and Greetwell Road in Lincoln.

This adit was in use from about 1904 and the mine had closed by 1920.

The mine has collapsed and the entrance has been sealed.

Stewart Squires

J T B Porter was an iron founder at Gowts Bridge, Lincoln from 1855 until 1919 when the firm amalgamated with Penney & Co.

Porter was one of the principal gas engineers in the country, boasting over 600 installations by the 1880s.

Several Lincolnshire town gasworks were built or extended by his firm. He also installed gasworks at country houses.

The gasworks illustrated in this advert is at Fell Foot in Cumbria. It was installed by Porter for the Colonel Ridehalgh in 1865.

The house and associated parkland are now owned by the National Trust who are currently (2019) arranging a restoration project which will include the surviving gasholder pits and retort house.

Information about Fell Foot supplied by Kevin Grice of the Lake District National Park Archaeology Volunteer Network.

Advert, c1875

The mill tower and the associated buildings which housed the roller mill have been converted for residential use.

Location of mill: SK 971 703

Peter Kirk Collection, 2001

The original mill here was built in the second quarter of the nineteenth century.

It had five sails but was remodelled with six sails in 1863. In 1882 a roller mill was introduced on the site.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph c.1910

Viewed from Vernon Street to the south.

"Windmill and attached steam corn mill, now residential units.

Mid and Late C19, converted 1990-92.

Red brick, with yellow brick dressings to the steam mill, and slate roofs"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388739 

Windmill cap just visible above the roof line in this image

DB 2 February 2019

Advert in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1913 for S & R Horton & Sons Ltd and featuring Le Tall's Flour Mills.

Remains of chimney in the Old Brick Yard, off Cross O'Cliff Hill, viewed from Public Footpath No. 40.

Lincolnshire County Council's Bracebridge Walk leaflet states :-

"The chimney and old clay pits are evidence of a brickworks established during the Lincoln building boom of the 1870s and 1880s.

This works amalgamated with three others in the area to form the Lincoln Brick Company.

It closed in the early 20th century because of competition from the Peterborough brick works.

The old clay pits have been taken over by hawthorn, hazel, elder and dogrose and provide an area ideal for birds and wildlife"

DB 2020 

This stone was set in the wall between numbers 34 and 36 Alfred Street.

This commemorates the building of these houses by James Anderton out of the proceeds (£800) from showing his model of Lincoln Cathedral made from old bottle corks.

The current pumping station at Pyewipe was built on the south bank of the Fossdyke to the west of Lincoln in 1936.

Still contained in the main pump house are the Gwynnes pumps which were driven by Ruston and Hornsby diesel engines - all made by Lincoln firms.

Water is drawn from a drain serving some 3300 hectares of land to the south and discharged into the adjacent Fossdyke Canal. Electrically operated pumps were installed in 1993.

Close by the pumping station is the cast iron tunnel with large concave brick portals designed by John Rennie in 1805-08 to transfer water from the Burton Main Drain to the north-west under the Fossdyke canal to the Skellingthorpe Main Drain to the south.

 May 2012

A planning application by Riverstone Dev 1 Ltd to demolish all existing structures on the site of the city's former Ruston Works and William Sinclair buildings has been approved.

The Ruston Factory was an important manufacturer of aircraft engines during the First World War. 

Buildings were used by William Sinclair Horticulture between 1984-2015 for the manufacture of fertiliser.  

DB 4 February 2019

The building runs parallel to Coulson Road which is on the other side of the drain.

DB 4 February 2019

Eastern end of the Ruston factory where it abuts onto the Sinclair buildings.

Picture taken from Coulson Road. 

DB 4 February 2019

Demolition in progress.

DB 4 February 2019

Panoramic view of the Sinclair buildings.

Image taken across the River Witham from the end of Princess Street.

DB 4 February 2019

Visitors entrance to the Sinclair buildings.

Image taken from Coulson Road across the drain. 

DB 4 February 2019

An intriguing photograph, thought to have been taken at about the time of the First World War.

Several women workers are shown at the first two rows of benches but otherwise the large room is occupied by scores of men.

No products are being made as far one can see. Perhaps this was a mass training session.

The Smith's Potato Crisp factory was built in 1937.

"Smiths was later owned by biscuit company Nabisco, BSN and finally sold to American company PepsiCo in the 1990s.

Subsequently, Pepsico withdrew the brand, in favour of popular British brand Walkers, which had been heavily marketed in a campaign using ex-footballer turned television presenter Gary Lineker.

Many of the products previously owned by Smith's became labelled as Walkers, although there are still several Smith's branded crisps sold by Walkers"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smith%27s_Snackfood_Company 

DB 28 January 2019

The Smith's Potato Crisp factory was built in 1937 but is now largely dedicated to the production of Quavers.

"Quavers are a British snack food, originally made by Smiths, and now produced by Walkers.

Walkers, owned by PepsiCo, purchased the Quavers brand in 1997, when it became one of the Frito Lay International brand names"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quavers 

DB 28 January 2019 

William Ashbee Tritton (1875-1946) achieved fame through the design and production of the first tanks at William Foster & Co's works in Lincoln.

He was appointed General Manager at Foster's in 1906 and was Managing Director from 1911 to 1939.

This plaque is at the entrance to Morrison's supermarket on Tritton Road, Lincoln, adjacent to the site of Foster's Wellington Works.

November 2019

Advert appearing in Ruddock's Directory of the City of Lincoln 1919.

Picture featuring the showroom on Monks Road

"4 Rainforth, W. & Sons, Monks-rd"

Advert appearing in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919.

"William Foster & Co Ltd was an agricultural machinery company based in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England and usually just called "Fosters of Lincoln."

The company can be traced back to 1846, when William Foster purchased a flour mill in Lincoln.

William Foster then proceeded to start small scale manufacturing of mill machinery and threshing machinery.

The mill was converted to an iron foundry by 1856, thus becoming the original Wellington Foundry.

During the First World War they built some of the first tanks for the British Army"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Foster_%26_Co. 

Tractor, 14514 "His Grace" pictured at the Museum of Lincolnshire Life.

Built 1925. 

Geoff Swain Collection 22 March 1997