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Alvin iron works (Kelly’s Directory 1897)

A pair of iron foundries once existed in Kingsholm; the Alvin Iron Works on Alvin Street (now Gloucestershire Heritage Hub), owned by Henry Smith Crump and in operation from around 1860 to 1930 and the Kingsholm Foundry on Sweetbriar Street/Foundry Street (the site is now Kingsholm Primary School) in the early 1830s until the 1940’s.  Sadly relatively few archive records have survived for either firm.  The Alvin Works specialised in agricultural equipment and it won many agricultural show medals during the 1870s and 1880s, before demand for metal during WW1 caused the eventual demise of the business.  An iron plate from the company can be seen today on one of the static carriages at the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway at Toddington.

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