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THE TALE OF TWO FOUNTAINS
shops including the draughtsman’s room were destroyed. However, the moulding workshop was saved.
The Charles Goad Fire Insurance Plan for 1899 also shows construction of buildings in bricks and stones in red, timber in yellow and glazed sky lights for workshops in blue. This colour coding al- lowed fire risk to be graphically portrayed. It is believed that the foundry was rebuilt before its sale.
According to the Northampton Mercury of 2nd April 1870, Edward Harrison Barwell died on 16th March 1870, aged 72, at Barnes in Surrey where he had moved. His body was brought by train to Northampton and amongst the mourners at his funeral were his family members, his second son Captain C.P. Barwell who served in the Army and had spent some time in India, the Manager, Mr Pain and Mr Atkinson, artist/designer of the Company. Mr Barwell’s coffin was carried out to its rest- ing place in the Churchyard of St Giles Church in Northampton. His grave is appropriately marked by a cast iron plate.
The sale of the Eagle Foundry took place in 1871 and it was purchased by William Rice and traded as Eagle Foundry under the name of Rice & Co. It remained in the Rice family for many years until 1998. In the early days, the Foundry made castings for the building trade, lamp posts, gulley grates and stable fittings within a wide business catchment area. The business also had an office near Lon- don Bridge. In 1928, the Foundry was moved to an industrial estate on South Bridge Road where a new foundry was built although the offices remained in Bridge Street until the 1950s. After the Sec- ond World War, the foundry began to manufacture engineering castings which became the staple product of the company and developed over many years. The Southbridge Road Industrial Estate has been redeveloped for residential development and recently, the University of Northampton’s Waterside Campus.
The whole of the Bridge Street site was redeveloped to build the Carlsberg Brewery which opened in 1974 and was officially inaugurated by the Queen of Denmark. It was designed by a Danish Ar- chitect, Knud Munk, for which he received the prestigious Financial Times Industrial Architecture Award.
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