1853 – W. & R. Jacob & Co. Biscuit Factory, Bishop Street, Dublin
The massive factory developed over several years for W. & R. Jacob & Co, who moved their small bakery from Waterford to Dublin.
The massive factory developed over several years for W. & R. Jacob & Co, who moved their small bakery from Waterford to Dublin.
Constructed as the Lansdowne Spinning and Weaving factory between 1851-54 for John Norris Russell. The buildings cost in the region of £80,000 and were designed to employ 6,000 workers.
Occupying one side of the street, this large shirt factory of McIntyre Hogg and Co.
Designed for Messrs. J. Hepworth & Son and published in The Building News, March 21th 1884.
Gallaher Tobacco Company, now part of Japan Tobacco, was originally founded in Derry in 1857 by Tom Gallaher.
Constructed in 1898 by David Hogg and Charles Mitchell as a shirt factory and operated until the 1970’s.
One of “the magnificent five” shirt factories of Derry, and built for the Messrs. Bayer Company.
Now known as SKF, it was founded in Gothenburg, Sweden by Sven Wingqvist, inventor of the double row self-aligning ball bearing.
Bryce and Weston at the end of the First World War built the last major shirt factory on the Strand Road.
Former cigarette factory for John Player Ltd., designed by an English architectural partnership of Hepworth &