Coal plate, St. James's Avenue, Brighton
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Coal plate, St. James's Avenue, Brighton
Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 19 Jul 2016
'T. W. Porter Star Foundry Brighton'. The foundry was on Bread Street, with an official address on Church Street. It closed in the 1900s. In 1890 the proprietor was A. Burstow. A plate with his name is shown in Image Whether Porter was in charge before or after Burstow has not yet been determined. I also have a suspicion ironmongers sometimes got the foundry to cast their own names on the plates, otherwise there were an awful lot of foundries about in some fairly small areas.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.821667
Longitude
-0.130213