Newton Keates were involved for many years in the copper industry at
Greenfield, Holywell, Flintshire, where all sorts of copper goods were
manufactured, many of them for use in the Liverpool slave trade.
Although copper ore was smelted in Lancashire, where coal was plentiful,
the copper goods were manufactured at Greenfield in the late eighteenth
and early nineteenth centuries, as water power was readily available
there for industrial purposes. Ken Davies, who did a Ph D thesis on the
history of the Greenfield valley, might well be able to give an opinion
on what your objects were. I can give you his address off list if you
would like it.
For general information on Greenfield, see a booklet by Ken Davies and
myself, 'The Greenfield Valley: an introduction to the history and
industrial archaeology of the Greenfield valley ...', 2nd ed (1986),
which I believe can still be bought at the site.
Christopher J Williams, 65 Stancliffe Avenue, Marford, Wrexham LL12 8LN
Tel: 01978 852601
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