NHER 54117 (Monument record) - Site of the Farmer's Foundry (St Andrew's Works)

September 1976. Site visit.
The foundry was established by Isaac Everitt in 1870. In 1890 the name was changed to The Farmer's Foundry and was owned by local businessmen and farmers and specialised in the manufacture of agricultural machinery. One of the first harvest elevators was manufactured in the foundry and the company was also noted for its No.42 Horse Plough, Barley and Cambridge rolls and was an early manufacturer of tractor-drawn rib gang rolls. The firm also produced ice skates on a large scale with the blades being brought from Sheffield and Germany and assembled onto a special frame in the foundry. Two pairs of skates were donated to the Gressenhall Rural Life Museum. The foundry was almost completely demolished by 1976 and the site was being used by an engineering company.
See (S1) and (S2) for further details.
S. Howard (NLA), 26 May 2010.