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James Maude Sherwood Foundry

An insight into the Foundry 1986
By Malcolm Marples
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James Maude & Co., Forest Road, Mansfield, were the owners of the Sherwood Foundry founded in 1788 making farm implements and progressed to making decorated Lamp Standards for the Thames Embankment and Pall Mall.

They were also the foundry associated with W.T. Allen between 1881 & 1955 producing Post Office roadside letter boxes for them.

In later years they progressed to manufacturing high precision casting for machine tools.

Finally in May 2003 they went into receivership but in July a management buyout and a change of name to Sherwood Castings prolonged its life until May 2004 When it finally closed thus ending the business of one of Mansfield oldest companies.

In February 2006 the Forest Road site was sold to developers and is now a housing estate.

 

This gallery was added on 24/01/2011.

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Really sad to learn the foundry is no longer there but was interested to learn that the foundry made the enbankment lamp standards and post office boxes. Now when I worked at the Meadow Foundry in Mansfield (in the sixties) we got the work producing the very same things which I helped to make, it was rumoured that we got the work because thre original foundry couldnt do the work anymore!I never knew it was Maudes which was a pity because there was friendly rivalry between the apprentices as to who was the better foundry. I do remember once being very curious about the type of work the moulders did there and very early one morning on my way to work I managed to jump a wall and get inside and have a quick look around and leave before anyone spotted me, these were the daft things we used to get up to back then - fond memories - I only wish someone had taken photos of the Meadow foundry there seems to be nothing online which is a great pity .

By Anthony Holmes
On 01/07/2011

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