Pages

▼
Showing posts with label iron. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iron. Show all posts
Friday, July 3, 2026

John and Charlotte Guest - GKN

›
In 1759, in Dowlais near Merthyr Tydfil, an iron works was founded by a group of iron masters. Eight years later, John Guest joined the com...
Monday, April 20, 2026

Abraham Darby - iron master

›
 Iron ore was smelted by burning charcoal in the Weald and as forests were denuded, smelting spread to other forested areas. Eventually it ...
Thursday, March 19, 2026

Yorkshire manufacturing history

›
 Britain's largest county with a long history of wool, coal and steelmaking. I draw together an overview of coal mining and iron and ste...
Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Manufacturing in the West Midlands

›
 The home of the metal basher, the Black Country, but also the city of a thousand small workshops. The image is of the Cadbury sports pavili...
Sunday, January 25, 2026

Manufacturing history of Wales

›
Coal, iron ore, copper and tin were the raw materials that made Wales key to the British industrial revolution. Slate from North Wales cover...
Monday, January 5, 2026

South East England manufacturing history

›
 The south east, mirroring Metroland, welcomed businesses moving out of London and the many new businesses setting up with good access to ai...
Sunday, October 19, 2025

Antrim coast and glens manufacturing history

›
 This part of Northern Ireland, with the Giants Causeway, is rich in minerals and in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries supported coal,...
1 comment:
Monday, October 13, 2025

Merthyr Tydfil manufacturing history

›
 In 1759, in Dowlais near Merthyr Tydfil, an iron works was founded by a group of iron masters. Eight years later, John Guest joined the com...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

Ripley manufacturing history

›
 In Derbyshire's Amber Valley in the 1790s, three Derbyshire men came together to create what would become the world's first industr...
Saturday, September 6, 2025

Edinburgh manufacturing history

›
 The capital city of Scotland, with access to the sea at the port of Leith, had for centuries a closer relationship with the continent of Eu...
Thursday, September 4, 2025

Falkirk manufacturing history

›
 In 1759, William Cadell in partnership with Dr John Roebuck and Samuel Garbett founded the Falkirk Iron Works with his son also William as ...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Cheltenham & Gloucester manufacturing history

›
 In the fifteenth century Gloucester was another centre for the wool and cloth industry. Work with iron was if anything more important with ...
Saturday, June 7, 2025

Telford manufacturing history

›
 Telford is rightly known as the place where in 1708 Abraham Darby discovered the way to use coke to smelt iron ore and I wrote about this i...
Friday, May 30, 2025

Dudley Manufacturing History

›
 There is evidence of iron working in Dudley in the Domesday Book. It shared the availability of raw materials with its neighbour, Stourbrid...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Scunthorpe manufacturing history

›
 The iron ore fields of north Lincolnshire attracted iron smelting to Frodingham and Appleby, two villages within what became Scunthorpe. Bo...
Friday, January 3, 2025

Consett manufacturing history

›
 There is evidence of metalurgical activity in the Derwent valley in County Durham from early times. There was a rich deposit of coal under...
Thursday, January 2, 2025

Newcastle and Gateshead manfacturing history

›
 Coal was at the heart of the economy of Tyneside which, with its long navigable estuary, was able to ship many of the millions of tons prod...