1. Ellis produced various bottled water products from 1825, drawing water from local artesian wells. R.Ellis & Sons was latterly taken over by Jewsbury & Brown of Manchester and the works closed in the 1970s. The site has since been demolished and built over.
(Source: T. Jones, Cambrian Mineral Waters of Ruthin, Transactions of the Denbighshire Historical Society, vol.45 (1996), pp.89-110)
B.A.Malaws, RCAHMW, 25 November 2005.
2. At the National Grid Reference given (SJ 11967 58016) is the original well used by Ellis' for water supply, now in the front garden of a modern house. The well head measures about 1.8m diameter and has a glazed stone(?) surround and descriptive stone plaque. The inscription reads:
THE ORIGINAL WELL USED BY
ELLIS'S TABLE WATERS OF RUTHIN
FFYNNON DWR ELLIS'S O RHUTHIN
Apart from a cartshed at the southwest of the site, now converted to housing, there appear to be no other surviving remains of the works.
B.A.Malaws, RCAHMW, 30 January 2006.
