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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Some springs on the hill are strongly impregnated with iron. Woolvercott (St. Peter) WOOLVERCOTT ( St. Peter), a … there are several blast-furnaces for converting scrap iron into pigs, and a machine for rolling iron Knees, keelsons, breast-pieces, and all other iron work …
The Environs of London
… All ordnance, for the use of Government, as well the iron cannon made by contractors at various places, as the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… an oval window, lighting the stairs, has a scrolled iron grille on the inside. Inside the building, some of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is 1668 feet above the level of the sea, is a mine of iron-ore in active operation; there are also quarries in the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… ditches about 30 m. and 50 m. in diameter (NDC A679). a(5) Iron Age Settlement (?) ( c. SP 742576), N.W. of Wootton … Northampton Sands, at 89 m. above OD. A ditch containing Iron Age pottery and slag was observed during the laying of … 9 (1974), 101; NDC R109). a(8) Roman Villa, Kiln Material, Iron Age Pottery, Worked Flints (centred on SP 73575811; …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Wootton Rivers and Devizes until 1851. 8 Thomas Holmes, an iron founder and machine maker, was working at Wootton Rivers in 1848, and between 1855 and 1859 a firm of iron founders, engineers, and agricultural implement makers, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is, poles for the hop-yards, and charcoal for the iron-works. Some parts possess beech-timber of excellent … at Mamble, which place communicates, by means of an iron tramway, with the Leominster canal; and again at Pensax, … of glass, as has also Dudley; and at both places the iron manufacture is carried on to a very considerable extent. …
History Theses 1901-1970
… technological change on labour in selected sections of the iron and steel industries of Great Britain, the United States …