2019

SK2523 : Trent Bridge House, Meadow Road, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffs

taken 4 years ago, near to Winshill, Staffordshire, England

Trent Bridge House, Meadow Road, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffs.
Trent Bridge House, Meadow Road, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffs.
Although now converted into apartments Trent Bridge House, as it is known, was formerly home to at least two businesses. In 1898 it became replacement site for Everard’s Brewery that had outgrown its original premises in Burton. (Its owners had already established Everard’s Southgate Brewery in Leicester in 1849). Behind the lamp post the lower section of a factory chimney can be seen. Then in 1900 two men - George Orton, who made residential wagons for fairground showmen and their families to live in and Thomas Spooner, a woodcarver specialising in decorative fairground infrastructure, who had previously worked together informally - took over these premises as a base from which to develop wooden fairground rides and carved fairground items. Spooner had previously worked in a yard behind his father's public house, The Swan, at the Winshill end of Burton Bridge. Later the company was registered as George Orton, Sons and Spooner Ltd. The firm remained pioneering fairground manufacturers until 1954, after which time the company functioned as a light engineering company until its closure in 1977. (See also: LinkExternal link )

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Geographical Context: Historic sites and artefacts Housing, Dwellings Suburb, Urban fringe Primary Subject: Houses other tags: Former Factory Former Brewery Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
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SK2523, 138 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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David Hallam-Jones   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 12 October, 2019   (more nearby)
Submitted
Monday, 14 October, 2019
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SK 2551 2335 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:48.4261N 1:37.3810W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SK 2551 2337
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