Brimsdown Industrial Estate from the River Lee

Brimsdown Industrial Estate is located to the east of the residential part of

Brimsdown Brimsdown is a neighbourhood of eastern Enfield in the London Borough of Enfield, north London, on the west side of the mid-to-lower Lea Valley. Geography The east of Brimsdown, that is, east of the eastern Lea Valley line is one of the borough ...

in the

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. The estate, which lies in the

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, is bordered to the west by the

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portion of the

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and to the east by the River Lea and

King George V Reservoir The King George V Reservoir, also known as King George's Reservoir, is located in the London Borough of Enfield and is part of the Lee Valley Reservoir Chain that supplies London with drinking water. The storage reservoir is bordered by Sewardsto ...

. A number of businesses are located here including

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Enfield bakery, warehousing and retail, and heavier industry such as

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, UOP and the Enfield Power Station.

History

The original, coal-fired

Brimsdown Power Station Brimsdown Power Station was a Fossil fuel power plant, coal-fired power station on the Lee Navigation at Brimsdown in Municipal Borough of Enfield, Middlesex. The station had seven cooling towers which were visible from a wide area. History Th ...

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 Enfield Cables Ltd was a British manufacturer of electric cables. The company was founded in 1913 by James Grimston as the Enfield Electric Cable Manufacturing Co Ltd, located on the River Lea in Enfield Lock. In 1959, as Enfield Cables Ltd, it w ...

(both later part of Detal Metals). Other firms included Brimsdown Castings (manufacturing in brass, copper, phosphor bronze, zinc and aluminium),

(precious metals), Brimsdown Lead Works, Ruberoid roofing materials, and Imperial Lampworks (later Thorn A.E.I. Radio Valves & Tubes). 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''.A.D.McMahon 1965, 'Copper A Materials Survey', US Bureau of Mines Information Circular
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References

Enfield Rolling Mills Enfield, London Buildings and structures in the London Borough of Enfield Manufacturing industries in London