Grace’s Guide: -
1832 Company founded by John
Every in North Street, Lewes.
1835 Fire at the premises
caused a move to Railway Lane near Cliffe Bridge.
1861 Phoenix Iron Works
established in North Place.
1878 Listed at Lewes as
'Every, John. Iron and brass founder, smith and engineer and iron merchant.
Implement maker and agent. Phoenix Iron Works.
1881 Employing 74 men and boys.
1887 John Every died aged 91,
and was succeeded by his son John.
1891 Listed at Lewes as
'Every, John. Iron and brass founder, smith and engineer and iron bar merchant.
Phoenix Iron Works.
1900 John Every II died. John
Every III continued and expanded the business.
1915 Listed at Lewes as
'Every, John. Iron and brass founder and structural engineer. Bar iron merchant
etc. Phoenix Iron Works.
After the death in 1943 of
John III, his son Morris Every changed the company name to John Every Lewes
Ltd. Difficulties arose and a bank put a rescue package together. In 1951 the
bank sold the iron works to a Mr. Burchell who renamed the concern East Sussex
Engineering.
By the end of the 1950s
foundry work had finished and the business concentrated on heavy engineering.
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