Nothing to Lucy
Rather randomly while out getting some fresh air in the dark after work I came across another Lucy box. Naturally I had to go down a small Oxonion rabbit hole this evening.
I discovered that what I've been calling the Lucy Foundry was actually the Eagle Foundry and Lucy was actually William Lucy who didn't even found the company but joined about 40 years later. It was William Carter who built the foundry in 1825, having had an ironmongery business for a decade or so. The reason the company branched out from ornamental ironwork to electrical fuse boxes and things was because John Dick came in as Director, and he just happened to be an electrical engineer. That was the early 1900s, when newfangled electricity was all the rage.
It seems the company outgrew the Eagle site in 2005, moved out, demolished everything and rebuilt it mostly as flats, but the Lucy Group itself is very much still going.
- 4
- 1
- Motorola moto g(8) power
- 1/5
- f/1.7
- 4mm
- 3053
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