Lydbrook Chemical Co
From Graces Guide
of Lydbrook and Crown Works, near Whitecroft, Gloucester
1857 The company was established by Russell & Powell.
1884 The business was taken over by S. M. Thomas, who also owned the Oakwood Chemical Works. Products from the two works included wood naphtha, lamp black, charcoal in various forms, plumbago, acetate of lime.
c.1894 Thomas Newcomen (1859-1937) purchased the Lydbrook Chemical Co. He also acquired the neighbouring Cannop and Forest of Dean Chemical Works in Coleford.
Newcomen was to continue in the trade for many years.
c.1919 The Lydbrook works closed.
1937 Wood charcoal and lamp and vegetable black manufacturers.[1]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industrie
- The Industrial History of Dean' by Cyril Hart, David & Charles, 1971.
- Archives of the British chemical industry, 1750-1914: a handlist. By Peter J. T. Morris and Colin A. Russell. Edited by John Graham Smith. 1988.