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3 unusual facts about Eagle Ironworks


Eagle Ironworks, Oxford

An entry for the Eagle Ironworks is included in an extract from a fictitious version of the Baedeker guide.

Terence Lucy Greenidge

He was a first generation Barbadian born in England and second son of Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge (who came up to study and remained at Oxford as an academic) and his wife Edith Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of William Lucy, at that time the sole owner of Lucy Ironworks, previously known as the Eagle Ironworks, in Walton Well Road, Jericho, Oxford.

Wheatley Windmill, Wheatley, Oxfordshire

Much new machinery was installed in 1784, supplied by the Eagle Ironworks in Oxford.


Lyra's Oxford

Two pages from a Baedeker published in Lyra's world (including entries for the Eagle Ironworks, the Oxford Canal, the Fell Press and the Oratory of St Barnabas the Chymist, all in the Jericho area of Oxford), a postcard from the character Mary Malone, and a brochure for the cruise ship Zenobia are also included.


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