A German-owned smelting business, whose Smelting Works is shown on this 1911 OS map, which was built in 1907 according to Eric Shaw in a Wandle Industrial Museum newsletter.

1911 OS map reproduced by permission of the National Library of Scotland

During World War 1, the business was confiscated in 1917 under the Trading With The Enemy Act.

From the London Gazette Publication date: 4 May 1917 Issue: 30048 Page: 4258

Eric says that the Eyre Smelting Company bought the Tandem Smelting Syndicate Ltd., and they were then bought by Fry’s Metals in 1925.

An aerial photo taken in 1947 on the Historic England website shows “Eyre Smelting Co.” on the side of a chimney, suggesting that it was part of the Fry Group.