kingdom products cooking and heating equipment number of employees 100 website http www.esse.com esse is a united kingdom brand of heating appliances notable for having been in the early 19th century the first to bring the north american type of enclosed heating stoves to europe . 1920s esse convector stove advertisement history edit in the 1830s as a teenager james smith left scotland for the united states and established a business selling the new american type of enclosed cooking ranges and stoves in jackson mississippi . realizing these innovative products offered significant advantages in efficiency and cleanliness over the open fires commonly used in europe he returned to his native land and arranged for the manufacture of his own versions initially at the bonnybridge foundry of george ure . in 1854 ure smith and a third partner stephen wellstood formed smith & wellstood as a new company and named a branch in honour of the land discovered by columbus ; the columbian stove works . the esse brand name was chosen simply because it was thought to sound french and being derived from the latin to be thoroughly european . the business prospered throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries so that the company were able to claim that every single royal household in europe owned an esse and included auguste escoffier mrs beeton florence nightingale and captain scott among their famous clients . today esse range cookers cook stoves and stoves are made in barnoldswick lancashire england . bibliography edit the history of smith & wellstood by alastair borthwick asin b0007k0duk external links edit wood burning stoves 1 v t e culture and infrastructure of the borough of pendle transport barnoldswick railway transdev in burnley & pendle colne and trawden light railway company east lancashire line leeds and bradford extension railway nelson corporation tramways the witch way railway stations brierfield colne nelson disused stations barnoldswick earby foulridge sport barnoldswick town f.c. colne cricket club colne dynamoes f.c. colne f.c. nelson cricket club nelson f.c. seedhill cricket ground media 2br barnoldswick and earby times craven herald & pioneer colne times lancashire telegraph nelson leader pendle community radio pendle express education colne park high school colne primet academy edge end high school mansfield high school marsden heights community college nelson and colne college pendle vale college ss john fisher and thomas more rc high school walton high school west craven high school history pendle witches companies esse stoves hope technology william roberts & co of nelson politics council council elections 1998 99 2000 02 03 04 06 07 08 10 11 12 14 15 west craven wards barrowford blacko and higherford boulsworth bradley brierfield clover hill coates old laund booth constituencies nelson and colne by elections 1968 pendle retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title esse stoves & oldid 726024067 categories residential heating appliancescompanies based in lancashirebarnoldswick navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 19 june 2016 at 13 57 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view