Fambrini & Daniels
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.jpg) Fambrini & Daniels office and works, Canwick Road, | |
| Industry | Building materials company |
|---|---|
| Founded | c.1850? |
| Defunct | after 1949 |
| Fate | Dissolved |
| Successor | Lindum Artificial Stone (c1913) |
| Headquarters | Canwick Road, Lincoln |
| Products | Artificial stone mouldings and Terracotta manufacturer |
Fambrini and Daniels were artificial stone and architectural terracotta manufacturers in Canwick Road, Lincoln, England. The company was probably founded in 1838.[1] About 1913 it became the Lindum Stone Company which ceased trading after 1949.[2]
Joseph Fambrini, was born in Italy in 1815, possibly in Florence. He is first noted as a plaster manufacturer and landlord of the Packet Inn on Waterside North in Lincoln.[3] The workshops in the 1860s were in Waterside South and then Newton Street, in what is now Sippers (formerly the Crown and Cushion) Public House and the adjoining property. In 1872 he is described as a modeller, and manufacturer of Plaster of Paris, Roman, Parian and other cements, enrichments etc.[4] In 1878 he built a workshop at 85 Canwick Road, later developing it into the show-yard and offices of the company of Fambrini and Daniels. The surviving office building on Canwick Road of 1889, by the Lincoln architect William Mortimer, is a two-storied building of red brick, with many decorative features in brick and terracotta, including the city crest on the north elevation and an 1889 date-stone on the north elevation.[5] The building was listed Grade II in 1999.[6] In 1888 they also were manufacturing at the Excelsior Works in Monks Road, Lincoln an Imperishable Concrete Stone which they had invented. This was said to be a material resembling Portland stone and was used for embellishing the new Lincoln Hospital in that year.[7] and also for the New Grand Opera House in Hull in 1893[8] After Fambrini's death in 1890, Daniel entered into a partnership with a Mr Webster.[9]
