Sparkbrooks Metal and Vehicle Works

Sparkbrooks used to be the top carriage makers this side of Carmogan, but when the Cassalanters started diggin' oil instead, they went broke. Now it's crawlin' with vermin.-Robin Knocks, Rapscallion.The Sparkbrooks Metal and Vehicle Works was a Waterdhavian metal factory in the Clarkenwell district. It used to make carriages and horse gear, but when the Cassalanter family started looking at the lucrative oil business (see Cassalanter Kerosene and Tar) it was sold to the Calinezzi family in around 1505, but fell into disrepair.
It was used as the unofficial base of Papá Warad and his advisors during his 1517 election campaign, who operated a soup kitchen for the homeless out of it. In summer 1517, Solodar Tailor, Hummanus Voratiant and Marco Polio showed up there, and blackmailed Warad when they revealed that they knew how he ordered the death of Scoop McClean.
Sparkbrooks was then acquired by Edward Loveridge in the land grab scramble after the Calinezzi family fell to the West Marchers' bombardment of the harbour, in summer 1522. It was used as the base of the The Loveridge Family operations from 1522 onwards.
The The Agents of Chaos crossed paths with Maxwell Loveridge and his boys there many times in 1552-3.
By 1560 or so, it had been cleaned up significantly, now only a factory in historical name, with finely furnished offices, expensive carpets, paintings of horses, and whiskey shelves, to name a few things. Maxwell Loveridge used it as his work office. It was also home to some fine drawing rooms, offices, and a small taproom. He had it connected with a landline phone, the place's number being Clarkenwell 1921.
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