Anglican Smelting, Reduction and Coal Co
Workd: Neston, Cheshire
1859 'The last day for registering scrip in the Anglican Smelting, Reduction, and Coal Company (Limited) is Tuesday next. The manager informs us that "The works at Neston are ready for lead smnelting, and we have received letters by the West India Mail packet Atrato that a vessel has been chartered to bring home 240 tons of rich ore to this company." '[1]
1866 Sale Notice: 'Important Sale at the Anglican Smelting Works, LITTLE NESTON, within four wiles from Burton Station, on the Chester and Birkenhead Railway.
MESSRS. JONES & SON have received instructions to SELL BY AUCTION, upon the above-named premises, on Thursday, February 8th, 1866, commencing at one o'clock precisely, the whole of the Valuable PLANT and MACHlNERY, comprising double powered condensing winding engine ; steam boiler, 5 feet diameter, by 35 feet long; crushing mill, consisting of a pair of rollers 24 inches diameter by 24 inches long; driving gear for ditto; blowing cylinder engine, consisting of cylinder 40 inches diameter, and working a 3 feet 6-inch stroke; wrought-iron blast receiver, 18 feet long by 6 feet diameter, with cast metal pipes from cylinder to receiver, and 36 feet of 12 inches of diameter blast pipe, with three stand pipes and valves; cast metal T bobs, with gudgeons, distance stays and bolts, cast metal plates and wrought-iron ditto, and standards in furnace; six de-silvering pans, weighing machine and weights, up to 6 tons 15 cwt.; sundry pieces of wrought and cast iron, two flat or peg chains, about 160 yards each, and the contents of the blacksmith's and carpenter's shops. Catalogues are now ready, which contain full particulars of each lot, and may be had from the Auctioneers, Neston, Cheshire, on receipt of one stamp.' [2]