In message <[log in to unmask]>, Mark Smith
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>Can anyone provide me with any additional information about the "New
>British Iron Company".
>
>At present the only information I can find is that the company was
>founded in 1829 under the name "British Iron Company" to run the
>Abersychan Iron Works together with its appended ironstone mines and
>collieries in the Afan Lwyd Valley, South Wales. The prefix "New " was
>added to the company name in 1843 by which time it may also have had
>operations in the Midlands (no details at present). The company went
>into bankruptcy in 1851 and its works were bought by the Ebbw Vale
>Steel, Iron & Coal Company a year later for only £8,500 (estimated as
>being only a fifth of the works true market value at the time). The name
>of the company continued to be partly preserved in that of the "British
>& Top Pits" an umbrella name for a series of coal levels and shafts that
>operated until at least 1910. As yet I have found no connection between
>the latter mentioned pits and those of the New British Rhondda Coal
>Company Limited who had collieries in the Vale of Neath until at least
>1934.
>
>I would particularly like to know if the name "New British Iron Company"
>was resurrected for any other ventures in the UK after 1851.
>
>Thanks in anticipation,
>
>Mark Smith.
>From a partial list of colliery fatal accidents I can offer the
following.
A fatal accident at Cotsal Colliery, Corngreaves, W. Midlands, operated
by the New British Iron and Coal Company Limited on 03-11-1865.
A fatal accident at New Bearmoor Colliery, Corngreaves, operated by the
New British Iron Company on 27-11-1865.
Two fatal accidents at Darlaston Green Colliery, Wolverhampton, operated
by the New British Iron Company on 06-01-1851 and 05-08-1865.
A fatal accident at Bearmoor Colliery, Corngreaves, operated by the New
British Iron Company on 09-02-1865.
A fatal accident at Black Wagon Colliery, Corngreaves, operated by the
New British Iron Company on 01-12-1866.
Four fatal accidents at Corngreaves Colliery, Corngreaves, operated by
the New British Iron Company on 20-01-1851, 22-01-1851, 22-02-1851 and
10-05-1851. Further fatal accidents at this colliery in 1903 and 1911
are recorded as R. Fellows Limited.
Four fatal accidents at Wynnstay Colliery, Ruabon, operated by the New
British Iron Company on 09-08-1866, 29-03-1883, 19-06-1883, and
10-12-1883. Between 1897 and 1914 numerous fatal accidents are listed as
Wynnstay Collieries Company Limited.
I emphasise that my list is as yet incomplete.
Hope this helps.
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