Moss Bay Hematite Iron and Steel Co
of Workington, Cumberland.
1873 Medal of Merit at the Vienna Exhibition.[1]
1882 Dissolution of the Partnership between Peter Kirk, Charles James Valentine, Peter Gibson Quirk, and Joseph Ledger, trading together as the Moss Bay Hematite Iron and Steel Company, at Workington[2].
1891 The company was registered on 25 March. [3]
1909 Company voluntarily wound up and, together with the Workington Iron Co, the Harrington Iron and Coal Co and the Cumberland properties of Cammell Laird and Co, the businesses were transferred to a new company[4] - Workington Iron and Steel Co
Note: 'The Moss Bay Iron and Steel Works, Workington, have been closed by the official liquidator, on the ground that he cannot pay the present rate of wages, and make pig iron at the existing price of raw materials except at a loss of 5s. per ton. The closing of these works will throw some 1200 or 1400 men out of employment in connection with these works. This is greatly to be regretted at the present time.'[5]. Was this the same firm?