The Thames Ditton Foundry was a
foundry
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in
Thames Ditton
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,
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, which operated from 1874 to 1939 and which under various owners produced numerous major statues and monuments as one of the
United Kingdom
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's leading firms of bronze founders.
[Thames Ditton Foundry – British bronze sculpture founders and plaster figure makers, 1800–1980]
– National Portrait Gallery website
Owners
Located in Summer Road in
Thames Ditton
Thames Ditton is a suburban village on the River Thames, in the Elmbridge borough of Surrey, England. Apart from a large inhabited island in the river, it lies on the southern bank, centred 12.2 miles (19.6 km) southwest of Charing Cross ...
, just outside the
Greater London
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area, the Thames Ditton Foundry is believed to have been built on the site of an historic "melting house" beside the River Thames. Its owners were: Cox & Sons (1874–80), Drew & Co. (1880–82), Moore & Co. (1882–97), Hollinshead & Burton (1897–1902) and A. B. Burton (1902–39).
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Works by the foundry (1874–1903)
The foundry was established in Summer Road, Thames Ditton, in 1874 by Cox & Sons, a large firm of ecclesiastical furnishing suppliers, to cast ornaments and statues in bronze. A hand-operated gantry crane, which moved the entire foundry floor to facilitate all major lifting work, was an integral part of the building constructed for this work. When the factory was demolished in 1976 this crane was preserved by the Surrey Archaeological Society
Surrey Archaeological Society is a county archaeological society, founded in 1854 for "the investigation of subjects connected with the history and antiquities of the County of Surrey" in England.
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The Society concerns itself with "the Cou ...
.
The foundry was a leader in its field and produced fine bronze statues which it exported worldwide, including Matthew Noble
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's statue of the Earl of Derby in Parliament Square
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, Westminster
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(1874), Thomas Thornycroft
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's equestrian statue of the Earl of Mayo
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for Calcutta
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(1875), Matthew Noble
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's ''Oliver Cromwell
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'' in Manchester
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(1875) and his '' Robert Peel'' in Parliament Square (1876), Thomas Brock
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's '' William Rathbone'' in Liverpool
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, George E. Ewing's ''Robert Burns
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'' (1876), Frederic Leighton
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's ''An Athlete wrestling with a Python
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'' (1877), John Mossman
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's ''David Livingstone
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'' (1877), Thomas Woolner
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After participating in the found ...
's ''John Stuart Mill
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'' (1877) on the Victoria Embankment
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and ''Captain James Cook
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'' in Sydney
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, Australia (1878), Richard Belt's ''Lord Byron
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'' at Hyde Park
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(1880), Thomas Brock's ''Robert Raikes
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'' in the Victoria Embankment Gardens
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(1880) and ''Daniel O’Connell
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'' in Dublin
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(1881), William Hamo Thornycroft
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's statue of General Gordon and related reliefs in the Victoria Embankment Gardens (1888) and his ''John Bright
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'' in Rochdale
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(1891).[
Other works by the foundry include ]Joseph Edgar Boehm
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's statues of Lord Lawrence in Waterloo Place (1882), Francis Drake
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in Tavistock
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(1882–83), William Tyndale
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in the Victoria Embankment Gardens
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(1884), the Duke of Wellington
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in Hyde Park Corner
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(1884–1888), Queen Victoria
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in Sydney
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(1885–1888), and the equestrian Prince Albert in Windsor Great Park
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(1890), among others. They cast Thomas Brock
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’s ''Sir Bartle Frere
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'' in the Victoria Embankment Gardens (1888), Thomas Woolner
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's '' Bishop Dr James Fraser'' in Albert Square
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, Manchester (1888), George Anderson Lawson
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's ''Robert Burns
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'' in Ayr
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(1891), Albert Toft
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Toft's career was dominated by public commemorative commissions in bronze, mostly single statues of military or royal figures. The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in ...
's '' Henry Richard'' in Tregaron
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(1893) and Frederick William Pomeroy
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's statue of Queen Victoria
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in Chester Castle
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(1903).
A. B. Burton
From 1902 to 1933 the Thames Ditton Foundry came under the sole ownership of Arthur Bryan Burton (1860 – 25 July 1933), the son of Eliza and Frederick Burton, a carpenter and joiner. Born in Surbiton, Burton was apprentice
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d at the age of 16 to the bronze foundry of Cox & Sons in Thames Ditton
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. Burton later opened his own foundry in Southsea Road, Kingston, before buying into the Thames Ditton Foundry in 1897, becoming the co-owner with Arthur John Hollinshead. In 1887 he married Florence Louisa Moore (1859–1932), the daughter of the foundry’s then owner, James John Moore. Button's daughter, also named Florence, married Louis Richard Tricker (1884–1963) in 1913. A younger daughter, Dorothy "Dolly" Frances Victoria Burton (1893–1908) died aged 14.[
Following the death of his partner Arthur John Hollinshead in 1902, Burton became the sole owner of the Thames Ditton Foundry. He served as a councillor on Surbiton Council and was a deacon of Surbiton Park Congregational Church, a Sunday school teacher and a benefactor of the ]Scout Movement
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. He was a Special Constable during World War I
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.[ On his death in 1933 Burton was buried with his daughter Dolly and his wife Florence in Bonner Hill Cemetery. Above their grave, atop a granite plinth, is a statue in bronze of a winged angel with arms outstretched reaching up. This had been cast in Burton's own foundry.
After Burton's death the business was continued under his name by his son-in-law, Louis Tricker. In 1939 at the start of ]World War II
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Tricker closed the foundry and sold the premises rather than see it used for manufacturing munitions. It was after used by London Metal Warehouses for making industrial castings and then by Metal Centres Ltd as a metal warehouse until 1971/2 when it was sold to the District Council. The foundry was demolished in 1976 and the crane removed for preservation by the Surrey Archaeological Society
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. Today Burton Court stands on the site.[Arthur Brian Burton (1860–1933) – British bronze sculpture founders and plaster figure makers, 1800–1980]
– National Portrait Gallery website[Biography of Arthur Bryan Burton on The Elmbridge Hundred website]
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Works cast by A. B. Burton
Works from this period include Frederick William Pomeroy
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's relief of Archbishop Frederick Temple in St Paul's Cathedral
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(1905), George Frederic Watts
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's ''Physical Energy
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'' in Kensington Gardens (1907), Goscombe John
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's figures for the Monument to the King's Liverpool Regiment
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in Liverpool
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(1905), the figural group on the RAMC Memorial in Aldershot
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(1905), the equestrian statue of King Edward VII
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in Liverpool (1916) and the statue of General F. S. Maude in front of the British Residency in Baghdad
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(1922). For Adrian Jones Burton cast the equestrian statue of the Duke of Cambridge in Whitehall
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(1909) and the forty-ton Quadriga
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on the Wellington Arch
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in Hyde Park Corner
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(1910–11), one of the largest bronzes ever cast in Britain.[
Bronzes cast for ]Bertram Mackennal
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include statues in England and Australia such as the memorial statue of Edward VII
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in Adelaide
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(1920), the equestrian memorial of Edward VII in Melbourne
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(1920), the recumbent tomb effigy of the Duke of Norfolk
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in Arundel Castle (1922), various figures for the Shakespeare Memorial in Sydney
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(1924) and two figures representing the Australian Navy and Army on the Cenotaph
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in Whitehall
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(1928). For Thomas Brock
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Burton cast, among other works, two subsidiary groups for the Victoria Memorial
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facing Buckingham Palace
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(1916). For Cecil Brown he cast the Imperial Camel Corps Memorial
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(1920–21) in the Victoria Embankment Gardens
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History
Between 1865 and 1870 the northern embankment and sewer was built by Sir Jose ...
and for John Tweed
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Early life
John Tweed was born at 16 Great Portland Street, Glasgow and studied at the Glasgow School of Art. He then trained with Hamo Thornycroft in London, and att ...
his statue of Lord Kitchener (1926) on Horse Guards Parade
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H ...
. For Arthur George Walker and Peter Hills he cast the statue of Emmeline Pankhurst in the Victoria Tower Gardens
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(1930), and for Alfred Gilbert
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the Queen Alexandra Memorial
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at Marlborough House
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(1930–1932).[
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Bronzes cast by Thames Ditton Foundry
File:Earl of Derby (16543860247).jpg, Matthew Noble
Matthew Noble (23 March 1817 – 23 June 1876) was a leading British portrait sculptor. Carver of numerous monumental figures and busts including work memorializing Victorian era royalty and statesmen displayed in locations such as Westminster Ab ...
, Statue of the Earl of Derby, London (1874)
File:General Charles George Gordon statue, Embankment, London (2).JPG, Hamo Thornycroft
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, Statue of General Gordon, London (1891)
File:RAMC Memorial Aldershot Group.jpg, Goscombe John
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, Figural group on the RAMC Memorial, Aldershot
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(1905)
File:Rolls Stat.JPG, Goscombe John, Statue of Charles Rolls, Monmouth (1911)
File:Imperial Camel Corps Memorial, London.jpg, Cecil Brown, Imperial Camel Corps Memorial
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, London (1921)
File:Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener Statue, Horse Guards Road, London.jpg, John Tweed
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Early life
John Tweed was born at 16 Great Portland Street, Glasgow and studied at the Glasgow School of Art. He then trained with Hamo Thornycroft in London, and att ...
, Statue of Lord Kitchener, London (1926)
The Horse Memorial to the horses who died in the Boer Wars, is placed at the corner of Rink Street and Cape Road in Port Elizabeth South Africa.
References
External links
Thames Ditton Foundry – Grace's Guide to British Industrial History
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Foundries in the United Kingdom
Companies established in 1874
Buildings and structures demolished in 1976
Demolished buildings and structures in England