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Seems to be related to some of the mills in Wandsworth.


“Richard Bush founded Wandsworth Distillery on Gargoyle Wharf on the Thames around 1780.” http://services.english-heritage.org.uk/ResearchReportsPdfs/097-2009WEB.pdf


“Again the mill was rebuilt, and insurance was taken out by Gosse and the Bells for the last time on 16 February 1781. The register record of the policy was marked "Void June 20, 1783" [18], when the partnership relinquished the lease. This was taken up by Richard Bush, whose father, Richard Bush senior, was the head partner in a firm operating the newlyestablished Wandsworth Distillery, situated on the bank of the Thames just downstream from Wandsworth Bridge. Richard Bush had probably been working at the mill for some time previously, for he had insured his utensils and stock contained therein with the Sun insurance company on 3 January 1783.

Daniel Watney was named as the occupier in the book of reference to a Deposited Plan of 1834 , and also on the schedule to the Wandsworth Tithe Map of 1838. He gave up milling a few years later, and went to the Wandsworth Distillery, previously mentioned. His younger brother James Watney, who was managing the Middle Mill and Upper Mill at Wandsworth, then took over the Lower Mill also. In about 1847 James Watney went into partnership with William Henry Wells, and in May 1848 they purchased the Surrey Iron Railway basin and wharf following the closure of that railway in 1846.” http://www.wandle.org/mills/lowermillwandsworth.pdf


“Lower Mills. The site was north of the Richmond railway, where a bridge crossed the river. They were also known as ‘Causeway Mills’, and belonged to Richard Bush. He was a promoter of the Surrey Iron Railway and owned the Wandsworth distillery, and was presumably the same Bush who had an interest in the Earlsfield oil mills. In 1723 they were used as oil mills but in 1745 they were used for malt. The Lower Mills were partly tide mills. The enabling act for the Surrey Iron Railway provided Richard Bush who occupied mills owned by the Rev. Charles Sampson and James Drew should control any sluices from the new dock, so that the milling should not be interfered with. Later both the mills and the distillery passed to the Watneys, the distillery becoming John Watney & Co., and in the late c19th the mills were used to clean wheat which was then rolled at the Upper and Mills. The mill worked 12 pairs of French burrstones with three water wheels. It was closed in 1893 and demolished in 1898." http://edithsstreets.blogspot.ca/2010/11/thames-tributary-wandle-wandsworth.html


By 1874, the Wandsworth Distillery was under the names “John and Daniel Watney.” https://books.google.ca/books?id=cPANAAAAQAAJ&lpg=PA186&ots=nIMcCWDZGx&dq=Wandsworth%20distillery%20richard%20bush&pg=PA186#v=onepage&q=Wandsworth%20distillery%20richard%20bush&f=false


Description of Watney’s distillery: https://books.google.ca/books?id=mbcHAAAAQAAJ&lpg=PA445&dq=watney%20Distillery&pg=PA445#v=onepage&q=watney%20Distillery&f=false


1924, still in the Watney family under John Watney & Co "From The London Gazette." Times [London, England] 27 Aug. 1924: 12. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 18 Apr. 2016. URL http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=usaskmain&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=&docId=CS202839835&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0


Fire 1888 "Sales By Auction." Times [London, England] 14 Nov. 1888: 16. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 18 Apr. 2016. URL http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=usaskmain&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=&docId=CS268750702&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0


Fire November 22, 1905 Index." Times [London, England] 23 Nov. 1905: 9. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 18 Apr. 2016. URL http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=usaskmain&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS151318903&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0


Fire May 31 1913 "Fair Week-End Weather." Times [London, England] 31 May 1913: 8. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 18 Apr. 2016. URL http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=usaskmain&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS135069887&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0


Operation

1870


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Located in

London


Produced

Spirits


Used Raw Materials

Barley, Malt, Yeast


Ownership

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Industry

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