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Cox & Sons establish the Bronze Foundry in Summer Road, on the site of a historic melting house.
The Foundry is taken over by Drew & Co. from 1880, and then, from 1882, Moore & Co. Future owner Arthur Bryan Burton was already in his apprenticeship at the Foundry by this point.
Arthur Bryan Burton marries the Foundry owner's daughter, Florence Louisa Moore. In the same year, future Foreman Chaser and Bronze Statuary Finisher, Edwin Packham, is born to a local family in Weston Green.
Arthur Bryan Burton and Arthur Hollinshead buy the Foundry together. The same year, Frederick Braddock starts his apprenticeship at the Foundry.
Local man Alfred Adley is employed by the Foundry. His son, Alfred Adley Junior, is at school locally. Adley Senior would work on-and-off for the Foundry until 1924, with a short break from 1912-17.
Arthur Hollinshead dies, making Arthur Burton the sole owner of the Foundry.
Personal tragedy strikes when one of Burton's two daughters, Dolly, dies aged 14. She is buried locally at Bonner Hill Cemetery in Kingston, and a bronze statue of an angel is made at the Foundry for her grave.
Frederick Braddock comes second place in a competitive exhibition of castings and models run by the Worshipful Company of Founders at the Ironmonger's Hall, London.
The Peace Quadriga, which had been cast at the Foundry, is installed on the Wellington Arch at Hyde Park.
During the First World War, the Foundry adapts to the manufacture of aero-engines and brass shell cases. After the War, the Foundry responds to huge demand for memorials to commemorate the dead.
King George V and Queen Mary visit the Foundry to see the bronze statue of Edward VII due to be sent to New Delhi, India, then part of the British Empire. It is one of many other statues made at the Foundry to be sent across the world.
A bronze statue of Suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst is unveiled in Westminster's Victoria Tower Gardens. Edwin Packham had worked on this.
Arthur Burton dies, and is buried with his daughter, Dolly. His son in law, Louis Richard Tricker, takes over ownership and continues business at the Foundry in the Burton name.
On the outbreak of the Second World War, Tricker closes the Foundry as he doesn't want to see it requisitioned for arms production. It is subsequently demolished in 1972. Today, there is a blue plaque on the site.
