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A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… coking-hearths, where coal is charred for the use of the blast-furnaces of the iron-works. Ashes of all kinds are also … tramroads for the convenience of bringing materials to the blast-furnaces, and conveying the iron from the works to the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… worked at Kidsgrove and in the immediate vicinity. Several blast furnaces for smelting iron-ore have been erected by …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… consisting of an extensive colliery, and iron-mines, two blast furnaces, foundries, &c. The opening of a branch from …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the loss of c. 500 workers following the closure of five blast furnaces before 1831. Thereafter it slowly declined, to … (pottery kilns), pits, and railway lines. 43 In 1767 blast furnaces were built there, and brick making probably … Pocock & Co. operated Calcutts. It then included two blast furnaces each capable of producing 40 tons of iron a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… abounds with ironstone, for the smelting of which a blast-furnace formerly existed. The village is pleasantly …
Old and New London
… into herrings, and gradually toned into a cosmopolitan blast of fish. In one church, the exact counterpart of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… sugar-pans, and anchors, anvils, and axles. There are four blast furnaces, two of which have been adapted to the use of the hot blast, and four cupola furnaces, all of which have … incessantly at work, day and night, for the production of blast; and fifteen air furnaces are in operation. There are …