Messrs. Penistan, Ironfounders

[GeoffE]

It seems a Michael PENISTAN (presumably the father) was Sheriff of Lincoln http://books.google.com/books?id=0UYwAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA64&dq=Penistan+lincoln

In an extract ... "Penistan & Co., Broadgate Ironworks, Lincoln "

A threshing machine http://books.google.com/books?id=1ZvE66ODSoQC&q=Penistan+lincoln&dq=Penistan+lincoln&pgis=1

Margaret - thanks for the link to Google books!

[Alan7636]

Cheers Geoff

The 'Broadgate Iron Works' fits in nicely with the address of St Rumbolds Lane that Catherine found yesterday.

Alan

[GeoffE]

Some of the road names we have mentioned have been lost over time.  Here's a  current map

http://tinyurl.com/yupp27

St Rumbolds Lane became St Rumbolds Street

From the river ("Waterside") to the drain was Melville Street

From the drain, and down to the railway was Pelham Street

Referring again to www.historicaldirectories.org

Look at the 1857 City of Lincoln Directory and find

PENISTAN MIchael, Engineer and Iron Founder, St Rumbolds Lane (House - 351 High St)

You will notice that Duckerings were also in business at the time.

I have several old street maps of Lincoln, and note there there was something - possibly a factory - to the south of St Rumbolds Lane in 1851.  By 1868 it was much larger.  There is a nearby label saying "Foster and Co", so perhaps it became their factory; but Foster's address in 1868 was Waterside North.  Fosters eventually built the first military tank http://www.thelincolntank.net/thefirst.html

Incidentally, the site of the factory I am speculating about is now the car park opposite Lincs Archives.

[Alan7636]

Once again Geoff thanks for the valuable information.

I have the 1905 Ordnance Survey map and the current A to Z street Atlas for the City, the 1905 map shows St Rumbolds Street and a heavy concentration of small to medium size factories.

As you say we have the Lincolnshire Archives on one side and opposite where the factories were is now the car park. Thats what I love about Lincoln, unlike some city's its still possible to walk the streets of our ancestors even if some of the architecture has changed.

Alan

[GeoffE]

I forgot to recommend http://www.old-maps.co.uk/