East & West Molesey
A Dictionary of Local History
Rowland G. M. Baker, 1972
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This existed in the grounds of the Priory for the
treatment of wax for Messrs. J.C. & C. Field Ltd., the well-known makers of
candles. It first appears in the rate books in 1845. In the 1890s the factory
was closed and the wax for Field's candles was imported from the south of France where the sunlight necessary for bleaching the wax was so much greater than at West Molesey. The site of the factory is now covered by the houses in Helen Close and Anne Way.
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