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“Gibbs, Bell & Co., of Victoria Docks, appears to have started as a vitriol manufacturer about 1862 and to have extended the business to fertilizers by 1866. (fn. 164) It was probably the predecessor of James Gibbs & Co., later Gibbs Fertilizers Ltd., which apparently ceased c. 1939. (fn. 165)” http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol6/pp76-89#p37  
 
“Gibbs, Bell & Co., of Victoria Docks, appears to have started as a vitriol manufacturer about 1862 and to have extended the business to fertilizers by 1866. (fn. 164) It was probably the predecessor of James Gibbs & Co., later Gibbs Fertilizers Ltd., which apparently ceased c. 1939. (fn. 165)” http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol6/pp76-89#p37  
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"Sales By Auction." Times [London, England] 20 Mar. 1899: 18. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 20 Apr. 2016. http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=usaskmain&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=&docId=CS302310516&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0
 
"Sales By Auction." Times [London, England] 20 Mar. 1899: 18. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 20 Apr. 2016. http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=usaskmain&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=&docId=CS302310516&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0
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[[Bones]] were shipped from soap factories around the country but were also imported from [[Russia]], [[Argentina]], [[Egypt]], and [[British India]], while [[phosphate]] was from the [[United States of America]], [[Algeria]], and [[Belgium]]. [[Guano]] was from [[Peru]], [[Bolivia]], [[Chile]], and [[Uruguay]].
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Latest revision as of 14:11, 12 May 2016


Operation dates are estimates.

“Gibbs, Bell & Co., of Victoria Docks, appears to have started as a vitriol manufacturer about 1862 and to have extended the business to fertilizers by 1866. (fn. 164) It was probably the predecessor of James Gibbs & Co., later Gibbs Fertilizers Ltd., which apparently ceased c. 1939. (fn. 165)” http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol6/pp76-89#p37

“Gibbs Manure and Vitriol Manufacturers. Established in the late 1850s. Using crude sulphur and pyrites to make sulphuric acid using faulty burners. The materials used in the manufacture of manure were dry bones, guano and mineral phosphates and sulphate of ammonia.” http://edithsstreets.blogspot.ca/2012/08/bow-creekriver-lea-leamouth.html

“(1.) Messrs. Gibbs’ Oil of Vitriol and Manure Works (No. 3 on map). —Established here for twelve or fifteen years, (a.) The materials burned for the manufacture of oil of vitriol are crude sulphur and pyrites. The burners have not been acting well, and the escape of sulphurous acid has been made a subject of complaint to the West Ham Sanitary Authority. Under the direction of the Medical Officer of Health, Mr. Drake, alterations have been made from time to time during the last two years, and are still being made, efficiency having not yet been secured. (6.) The materials said to be used in the manufacture of manure are dry bones, guano and mineral phosphates, sulphate of ammonia being added to some kinds of manure. The best practicable means, so far as my knowledge extends, of preventing the escape of offensive effluvia into the atmosphere from the mixer and the reception-pits are in use in this establishment.” Except accidentally, I should very much doubt the extension of effluvia from these works to any considerable distance.” - Ballard’s Report on the Lower Thames 1873 https://greenwichpeninsulahistory.wordpress.com/category/site-area/delta-and-point/

In 1898/1899 it appears that the company was selling some of their Silvertown works:

"Sales By Auction." Times [London, England] 5 Dec. 1898: 16. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 20 Apr. 2016. http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=usaskmain&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=&docId=CS268755845&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0

"Messrs. Green And Son,." Times [London, England] 9 Dec. 1898: 10. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 20 Apr. 2016. http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=usaskmain&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=&docId=CS168878985&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0

"Sales By Auction." Times [London, England] 13 Mar. 1899: 16. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 20 Apr. 2016. http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=usaskmain&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=&docId=CS268756077&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0

"Sales By Auction." Times [London, England] 20 Mar. 1899: 18. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 20 Apr. 2016. http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=usaskmain&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=&docId=CS302310516&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0

Bones were shipped from soap factories around the country but were also imported from Russia, Argentina, Egypt, and British India, while phosphate was from the United States of America, Algeria, and Belgium. Guano was from Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Uruguay.


Operation

1860 to 1899


Location

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Located in

London


Produced

Fertilizer, Vitriol


Used Raw Materials

sulfur, pyrites, bones, guano, mineral phosphates, sulphate of ammonia


Ownership

From To Owner


Industry

From To Industry
1860 1899 Chemical Industry