Dear Peter,
For the south Wales iron industry generally try Laurence Ince, South Wales
Iron industry 1750-1885 (1991). I am not sure if this is still in print.
If it is, it can be obtained from Merton Priory Press Ltd of Cardiff.
However this (and Atkinson and Baber) will only give details of the history
of the industry generally, and will not help with the lives of individual
ironworkers. If your correspondent wants more details of social and working
conditions I suggest he looks at Chris Evans, The Labyrinth of Flames
(University of Wales Press 1993), which describes Merthyr Tydfil in the
Industrial Revolution. Nantyglo was a single ironworks probably in a
smaller valley, but there would no doubt be similarities.
Peter King,
49, Stourbridge Road,
Hagley,
Stourbridge
West Midlands
DY9 0QS
telephone 01562-720368
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From: Peter Claughton <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: 31 May 2002 18:10
Subject: Nantyglo and workers in the South Wales iron industry
> Can any members help with the following query from a non-member - David
> Daniell <[log in to unmask]> -
>
> >Please can anyone advise me how to find out more about the working lives
> >of this family (the Bevans - but apparently not one of the 'gentry'
Bevans
> involved with
> Beaufort Iron Works and Kendall.), the younger members of which were
active
> in the operation
> >of the J & C Bailey businesses centred on Nantyglo in the early to mid
19th
> >century as iron miners, a mine burner, engineers, managers and agents.
>
> For a general social and economic history of the South Wales Iron Industry
I
> have suggested Michael Atkinson and Colin Baber, The Growth and Decline of
> the South Wales Iron Industry, 1760-1880, University of Wales, Board of
> Celtic Studies, Social Science Monograps, No. 9, (Cardiff, Univ. Wales
> Press, 1987), can any member suggest published material of a more specific
> nature?
>
> Peter
>
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