Williams and Woods

During the 1916 Easter Rising, the rebels laid plans to occupy the Williams and Woods factory building but this did not come to pass.

[7] By the 1950s, the workforce had grown to 1,000 and the company had expanded to producing good for other brands, including Crosse & Blackwell and Chef.

[9] In 1975, the company by then known as Willwood moved its operations out of Dublin city centre to a modern manufacturing facility in Tallaght.

[10] The Art Deco factory at 26 King's Inns Street was designed by Donnelly and Moore architects and built by G&T Crampton in 1910.

[1][13][3] The former Simpson's Hospital building on Parnell Street was sold off to developers after the factory's move in 1975 and ultimately demolished.