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A History of the County of Essex
… and Sons Ltd. from Limehouse on the Thames who used steel. 7 Joseph Cole and his son Daniel built smacks between … of the Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Iron and Steel Ship- builders was formed in 1890, and a branch of the …
A History of the County of Essex
… flood barrier across the river Colne, 130 m. wide with two steel floodgates, built by the National Rivers Authority, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… stand has been erected. The manufacture of the finer steel ornaments, which was carried on extensively, and … in this town, has given place to the heavier articles of steel and iron. Of these the principal are, smiths' and … description, files, nails, screws, gun-locks, hinges, steel-mills, and machinery; locks, for which the place has …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in 1922. Those pits closed in 1931 and 1940. 47 Iron and steel. About 1414 Thomas Ferrour, a Wolverhampton ironmonger, … 1879 at Priorslee, producing c. 700 tons of 'Lilleshall Steel' ingots a week. By 1886 the primary rolling of steel was being undertaken, possibly using a mill moved from …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 404-5. Below, Econ. Hist. (Coal and Ironstone; Iron and Steel). T.S.A.S. xi. 325, 329, 335 (readings checked from … 1841-81. Below, Wrockwardine Wood, Econ. Hist. (Iron and Steel). V.C.H. Salop. ii. 225-6, 229. Above; T.D.C. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… extent. The manufacture of various articles of fine steel has very much decayed since the rise of Birmingham and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… belonged to Alderman Thomas Grantham (d. 1776), grocer and steel manufacturer, then to his son-in-law William Carter, … Place and no. 1 High Street as a house and shops. The steel jewellery shop apparently faced the Market Place, for … 5 was sold to Thomas Grantham, who may have manufactured steel there. 17 In 1838 the Eldridge's corner premises in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… no. 2 Market Place and no. 1 High Street were built by the steel jewellery manufacturer George Eldridge (d. 1764). … for malthouses there were few industrial buildings, since steel manufacture and gloving, Woodstock's chief 18th-century …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was renowned also for its manufacture of polished steel. 73 Horseshoe nails were re-used 74 to produce … king of Denmark, on a visit to Blenheim, bought gloves and steel. 77 Because of elaborate decoration even small items … with 'Fair Rosamund'. 82 There is no reference to steel work in Woodstock earlier than the 18th century, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and aiding the development of two industries, gloving and steel jewellery manufacture, for which the town became widely … factors contributed to Woodstock's relative decline: the steel jewellery craftsmen failed to compete with mass …