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Fishponds history
Fishponds was first recorded as the “Newe Pooles” in 1610, and subsequently “Fish Ponds” by 1734. By the 17th century it was a thriving village with stone-built cottages for miners and quarrymen for coal and pennant stone. The village grew up around the two pools formed from the old quarries, but both were filled in by 1839.
Engineering and railway
Fishponds has been the site of several metal foundries, including George Adlam & Sons. Parnall & Sons fit out passenger compartments on the RMS Britannic and QE2 in the 1960s. Peckett and Sons built locomotives at the Atlas Works towards Speedwell, whose engines joined the line at Clay Hill.
Chocolates and confectionery
Palmer Bros biscuit and cake manufacturers had two sites in Fishponds Road. Webers chocolates in Goodneston Road opened in 1914 and had production lines alongside Oerlikon 20mm cannons in World War II.
Automobile and aircraft manufacturing
Straker-Squire opened a large factory on Lodge Causeway in 1906, and was a major producer of early London Buses. The aeronautics industry arrived in Fishponds in 1914 when Brazil Straker began building Rolls Royce aircraft engines for the RFC in World War I. Today, Diamonite Aircraft Furnishings supplies some of the world’s best aircraft interiors.
Pottery, paper and printing
Pountney & Co moved to Fishponds in 1905 and opened a large factory on Lodge Causeway. It had an entirely new labour-saving design and produced a range of domestic and luxury ceramics. The Royal Cauldron name was acquired in 1962, but by then the factory was suffering from lack of investment and it became insolvent in 1971.
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