Le 14/12/03 20:57, « Keith Ramsey » <[log in to unmask]> a écrit :
> According to "Mineral Statistics" for 1866, this works was owned by Hinde
> and Cosham. Allowing for spelling mistakes, does anyone know if this had
> anything to do with Handel Cossham, the Bristol colliery owner?
>
> Keith Ramsey
In "The South Wales Iron Industry, 1750-1885", by Laurence Ince (Ferric
Publications, 1993, ISBN 0-9518165-1-9, indispensable), it says, p35 :
"The (Hirwaun) furnaces were in blast for the first six months of 1859 and
then the Crawshays abandoned the site. The works reverted to the landowner
who was the Marquis of Bute. His mineral agents managed to let the concern
in 1864 when the Hirwaun Ironworks was leased by Handel Cossham and Thomas
Challender Hinde who put two furnaces into blast. In the following year the
other two furnaces were repaired and in 1866 the works was controlled by the
Hirwaun Iron and coal company headed by Handel Cossham. ... The Hirwaun
Ironworks was advertised for sale in 1870..no interested parties came
forward and the Hirwaun Iron and Coal Company was wound up..."
I'm interested to see who this character actually was, as Ince gives no
further details. His two sources are "Mining Journal, Jan. 14th 1864, and
Robert Hunt, Mineral Statistics, 1865-6".
Hirwaun Ironworks was actually half in Brecknockshire (Crawshay land : yard
and limekiln)) and half in Glamorgan (Bute land : furnaces and mills) and
strained relations were the result ; one of the greatest tram road systems
of South Wales grew up around this Ironworks, founded in 1757 as the first
coke fired iron furnace in South Wales.
Ian
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