Goscote Foundry
of Walsall [1]
1804 Advertisement: 'Goscote Colliery and Iron Foundry. The Public are respectfully informed that the Coal-Works, Iron-Foundry, &c., lately carried on under the firm of Bradley, Waring, and Co. are now carried on by Omar Hall, Elijah Waring, John Brawn, and Samuel Kent Parson, under the firm of Hall & Co. who beg leave to inform the friends of the late company and the public in general, that all orders both in the Coal and Iron-Foundry branches, particularly in reference to Forge-mill Engine-castings, Boring and Turning, will be thankfully received and executed with the utmost possible dispatch. N.B. Engines erected by contract. Goscote, Jan 26th, 1804' [2]
c.1831 Supplied one, and possibly two Cornish-type pumping engines engines to the Griff Colliery Co near Nuneaton. Photographed by George Watkins in 1937. [3]
see Wright and Co (of Goscote Foundry)
See Also
Sources of Information
- The Steam Engine in Industry by George Watkins in two volumes. Moorland Publishing. 1978/9. ISBN 0-903485-65-6
- Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10