Below are pics of an Errington Clanny Lamp. This a rare maker from Sunderland, see stamp on saddle.

The firm of Errington’s - Richard and Thomas, Sunderland Brassfounders, was discussed on a forum on RootsChat during August 2010 where the following information on the firm, taken from trades directories and the 1851 Census, was given :

Hagar's 1851 Directory Richard, Thomas and John Errington, Brass Founders, were at Garden Street, Bishopwearmouth.

1858 Post Office Directory, Thomas Errington, (Brass Founder, Coppersmith, Brazier, Plumber & Gasfitter, Safety Lamp & Compass Maker, & Patent Windlass Manufacturer) Bishopwearmouth Panns - this Brass Foundry was on Bridge Crescent at Sunderland.

Garden Street was between Sunderland Street and Numbers Garth.

Thomas Errington, Brassfounder, Coppersmith etc. was also at Ayres Quay

Thomas Errington lived at Camden Street, Low Southwick, Richard Errington lived at Southwick Lodge, Ayres Quay.

These directories can be seen at www.historicaldirectories.org

The 1851 Census for Sunderland has the following at Reference Ho107/2395/138/56 :

Bridge Crescent, Bishopwearmoth

Errington
Richard, 51, *, b. Lamsley
Margaret, 49. b. Gateshead
Thomas, s, 20, plumber, b. Bishopwearmouth
William, s, 17, brass founder app, b. -do-
John,s, 15, shipwright app, b. -do-
Hannah, d, 11, b. -do-

* of the firm of Richard Errington & Brothers, Brass Founders, Tinners, Plumbers, Braziers, Mariners ? and makers employing 13 journeymen, 17 apps and 3 labs

There was a notice published in The London Gazette in December 1857 that the partership of Thomas and William Errington, in the firm of T & W Errington, had been dissolver by mutual consent on 1st December 1857.

There was a notice in an edition of The London Gazette for 1866 that Thomas Errington had been made bankrupt.

This information should help to provide a date for the lamp. Interestingly, Clanny's house would be less than about two hundred metres from the Bridge Crescent premises.

Alan Vickers.

Thanks for that Alan, gratefully received. Very interesting account of Erringtons. I have printed it off and put it inside the lamp for future owners.
Charles

Dr William Reid Clanny died in 1850, a few years before Thomas Errington started on his own, however I have found reference to Robert Errington, brassfounder at Garden Street, in the 1827 directory.

The Garden Street premises were also very close to Clanny's house and bearing in mind that Clanny was active in developing the safety lamp for over forty years, during which time he produced six versions of his lamp then it seems probably that some, if not all, of the practical work on his later lamps may well have been done by Erringtons.

Alan Vickers.

I have just purchased a ''Clanny '' lamp with the gauze and glass missing, the makers mark is the initials E C C set inside a triangle on the top of the lamp,could you give me more details of the manufacturer, and where I could find a glass and gauze !
Regards Delwyn Davies






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The initials will be CEC and stand for Commercial Engineering Company, who were the successor to Joseph Cooke Birmingham.