Whilst doing my 'homework' for the Welsh Mines Society field meet in June of
next year - see http://www.mike.munro.cwc.net/mining/wms/wmsoc_hp.htm for
details - I came across Oliver Lloyd, solicitor of Cardigan. Up to his death
in about 1846 he was one of the lessees of minerals on part of the Bishop of
St Davids' estate at Llanddewibrefi (NLW Lucas 1992 and 2118). And it's not
the first time I had come across him. He was lessee at Llanfyrnach in the
early 1840s. He or an associate evidently had some knowledge of the
application of water power to mine drainage. He is credited with the
construction of the spectacular leat high above Cwmbrefi. Nine miles long,
this fed the machinery via a pond above the Rhysgog Mine. At Llanfyrnach his
name is mentioned with reference to the erection of a powerful pumping
waterwheel.
Has anyone come across Lloyd in connection with other mines in the 1840s or
earlier?
Peter
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