Brimsdown Industrial Estate

Brimsdown Industrial Estate is located to the east of the residential part of Brimsdown. It is bordered by the West Anglia Main Line portion of the Lea Valley Lines to the west and River Lea and King George V Reservoir to the east. A number of different business are located here including warehousing and retail. But also includes heavier industry such as Johnson Matthey, UOP and a power station.

History

The original, coal-fired Brimsdown Power Station was built by the North Metropolitan Electric Power Supply Co (Northmet) in 1907. By the time of its closure in the 1970s this had grown to be a major plant, visible from a wide area due to its seven large cooling towers. Manufacturers attracted to Brimsdown by electricity supply and flat sites included non-ferrous metals producers Enfield Rolling Mills (ERM) and Enfield Cables Ltd (both later part of Detal Metals). Other firms included Brimsdown Castings (manufacturing in brass, copper, phosphor bronze, zinc and aluminium), Johnson Matthey (precious metals), Brimsdown Lead Works, Ruberoid roofing materials, and Imperial Lampworks (later Thorn A.E.I. Radio Valves & Tubes). [cite web | url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=26953 | title='Enfield: Economic history'| publisher=Victoria County History| work=A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 5: Hendon, Kingsbury, Great Stanmore, Little Stanmore, Edmonton Enfield, Monken Hadley, South Mimms, Tottenham (1976), pp. 232-239.| accessdate=2007-10-27]

In 1965 the ERM plant consisted of "a copper refinery, copper and brass sheet and strip mills, copper rodmill, and copper drawing mill. Copper and copper-base alloys produced are cast and fabricated into refinery and mill shapes". [ [http://www.admmr.state.az.us/DigitalLibrary/USBM_IC/USBMIC8225CopperPart3of3.pdf A.D.McMahon 1965, 'Copper A Materials Survey', US Bureau of Mines Information Circular] ]

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