ET Bellhouse and Co

  • English

Architect - AsNotedIn

Notable Position Person From To
Partner Edward T Bellhouse 1842

Timeline

Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
1842/07/01 In Manchester, Edward T Bellhouse and his father David Bellhouse, establish ET Bellhouse and Company at the Eagle Foundry on the western end of Hunt Street (now Whitworth St) near Beaver St on the Rochdale Canal. Established
1847/00/00 The ET Bellhouse and Company provides nine cast iron bridges to the Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway. Fabricator
1848/00/00 ET Bellhouse and Co manufacture prefabricated Iron Houses. Ordered from a catalogue, the dwellings are dismantled, components labelled then packed into crates and shipped to California 49ers for use in the Gold Rush. Fabricator History of Prefabricated Homes
1849/00/00 Eagle Foundry in Manchester, England, fabricates warehouses, houses and cottages for the Californian Gold Rush. The wall are made with horizontal sheets, which are fitted into cast iron columns shaped to fit the curve of the corrugation. Fabricator
1851/07/00 ET Bellhouse and Co win an award at 1851 Great Exhibition for a hydraulic press used for packing cotton or other material in bales. Fabricator
1854/00/00 An iron house fabricated in Manchester, England, at the Eagle Foundry, is assembled in Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia. Put together in Britain, the houses were taken apart, pieces labelled then packed into crates and shipped ready to be reassembled. Fabricator Portable Iron Houses, Melbourne Melbourne, AU History of Prefabricated Homes
1857/04/00 ET Bellhouse and Co erect a large cast iron building (lost) for one of the exhibitors in just 13 days for the Art Treasures exhibition in Manchester, England, a display of fine art held in Manchester, England, from 5 May to 17 October 1857. Fabricators
1859/12/07 Moving at 2 to 3 mph, a Boydell traction engine makes a trial run from Manchester to Oldham. The engine weighs about 15 tons, with a train of six waggons, loaded each with two tons of iron, making the whole a weight of 45 tons. Fabricator
1876/00/00 Lower Campfield Market features cast-iron columns with crocket caps. Each end bay has a segmental-arched open-work panel in the centre, and an elliptical-arched iron bressummer to the gable, with glazing like that of the centre. Fabricator Air and Space Hall, Science and Industry Museum, Manchester Manchester, ENG
1878/00/00 Higher Campfield Market features cast-iron columns with crocket caps, each bay divided horizontally by a moulded cornice with a matching pilasters, a latticed band above eaves level and a gable filled with glazing in lights with slender shafts. Fabricator Former Market Hall, Manchester Manchester, ENG
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