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His output ranged from garden ornaments to railway bridges. He produced lamp posts for the new gas street lighting (one of which still exists on Silk Mill Lane in Derby) and was one of the first to produce the new standard Post Office letterboxes. Nearly two thousand different window frames designs
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came to Derby, with a long viaduct from the east across the Derwent Valley, slicing through the northern part of the city, including Friar Gate – a very well-to-do area. To placate the residents, a graceful bridge was built across the road. This, though initially reviled, is now much prized by the
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before taking over the Brittania Foundry in 1848. It had first been opened around 1820 by Weatherhead and Glover to cast ornamental ironwork, and had achieved a high reputation, partly from the skill of the workers, but also because of the quality of the local moulding sand. By the 1840s it was
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In 1874, Andrew Handyside achieved another first, realising that the depreciation of buildings, plant and machinery should be set against their net profits. Unfortunately, their local inspector of taxes disagreed. The company won its initial appeal but then lost in the
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Handyside died in 1887 and the firm gradually declined until it closed early in the twentieth century. The foundry was demolished to be replaced by a housing estate, the only remaining traces being the Furnace public house and the name of a road: Handyside Street.
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in 1854 proved to have a tensile strength of between 20 and 23 tons per square inch, against a norm of about seventeen. He also retained the artistry that had gone before and improved upon it.
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to Clifton Junction line, converted from a timber superstructure in 1881. Although the line closed in 1966 it has since been restored as part of a nature trail. One of his bridges,
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The largest structure built by Handysides, said to be the largest hall in the kingdom covered by one span of iron and glass, was the 1886 National Agricultural Hall in
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there was an increasing demand for engineering and for iron framed construction. He concentrated in improving the strength of the material, which, when tested at
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Robert Thorne, ‘Handyside, Andrew (1805–1887)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, January 2008
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In time, the works also produced rolling mills, hammers, forges and presses, at first for its own use, then for others, including the new steel mills.
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citizens of the city, who have successfully resisted several attempts by the modernisers to replace it with a bypass. Handyside also provided a
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It began manufacturing arched structures, such as the train sheds for railway stations, including, in 1854,
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When one considers the small area occupied by the works, on the bank of the
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Although cast iron ornaments were going out of fashion, until the advent of
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diversifying into railway components. Among the early customers was the
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were produced. The company even supplied a dome to the steel maker
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opened its new line and Handysides provided the structures of the
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stations. Another Handyside structure that still exists is the
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for which it supplied cylinder blocks and other castings.
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Inns and Taverns: The illustrated history of Derby's pubs
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in London. Other bridges and structures were built in
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Index

Handyside and Co.

Foundry
Derby
cast iron

Belfast
iron founder
Derby
England

Derby Arboretum
Derby Industrial Museum
Edinburgh
Scotland
Charles Baird
St. Petersburg
Midland Railway
Derby Works
steel
Woolwich
Henry Bessemer
River Derwent
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
Bradford
Middlesbrough
St. Enoch in Glasgow
Wilford Toll Bridge
Trent Bridge
Nottingham

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