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For the ironworks in the US state of Virginia, see Tredegar Iron Works. Tredegar Iron and Coal Company was an important 19th century ironworks in Tredegar, Wales, which due to its need for coke became a major developer of coal mines and particularly the Sirhowy Valley of South Wales. It is most closely associated with the Industrial Revolution ...
Trunnion from a bronze cannon stamped "J R A & CO, T F" (J.R. Anderson & Company, Tredegar Foundry) made at the Tredegar Iron Works. By 1860, the Tredegar Iron Works was the largest of its kind in the South, a fact that played a significant role in the decision to relocate the capital of the Confederacy from Montgomery, Alabama, to Richmond in ...
Bryn Bach Park is located on the site of a former iron ore "patch" mine, a type of Open-pit mining where small areas are excavated close to the surface to extract ore. The first recorded excavation took place in 1747 and grew over the next three centuries expanding with the opening of Sirhowy Ironworks in 1778 and Tredegar Ironworks in 1800.
Tredegar Ironworks may refer to either of the two similarly named nineteenth-century ironworks: Tredegar Iron Works , Virginia, United States Tredegar Iron and Coal Company , South Wales
Tredegar Works may refer to: Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia; Tredegar Iron and Coal Company in Wales This page was last edited on 17 ...
In his 1903 History of the iron, steel, tinplate and ... other trades of Wales, Charles Wilkins described a charcoal-fired furnace, Pont Gwaith yr Haiarn [alternatively 'Hearn'] ('the bridge iron works'), four miles south of Tredegar, as 'one of the oldest places on the hills for ironmaking.' [13] He cited in support of his description the Rev ...
The Tredegar iron works, and others in the Sirhowy Valley, were among those for which a suitable transport connection was urgently needed.Samuel Homfray, Richard Fothergill and Matthew Monkhouse were the co-founders of the Tredegar Ironworks, and a lease of 20 March 1800 from the landowner Sir Charles Morgan granted them not only the right to extract coal and iron ore from his land, but to ...
Visitors at Oakdale Colliery seen during a railtour in April 1986. Oakdale Colliery was a coal mine located in the Sirhowy Valley, one of the valleys of South Wales.. In the early years of the twentieth century the need for coal was growing both in America and Europe, and local business men in Wales were looking for new opportunities to fill the demand.