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Rhiwderin Tin Plate Co

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of Rhiwderin, near Newport, Mon.

The Rhiwderin Works was built in 1867, and was operated by four different companies. The Jersey Tinplate Co bought the equipment in 1890 for installation at the Jersey Tinplate Works, later known as the Wern Tinplate Works[1]

1882 'The Bankruptcy Act, 1869.
In the County Court of Monmouthshire, holden at Newport. In the Matter of Proceedings for Liquidation by Arrangement or Composition with Creditors, instituted by Charles Edward David Morris, of the Garth, formerly called Highfield House, in the parish of Bassaleg, in the county of Monmouth, and of the Garth Iron and Tin Plate Works, Rhiwderin, in the parish of Bassaleg aforesaid, carrying on business at Rhiwderin aforesaid, under the style of the Rhiwderin Tin Plate Company, and lately carrying on business as a Tin Plate Manufacturer at Parkend Tin Plate Works, near Lydney, in the county of Gloucester, under the style of the Parkend Tin Plate Company, and also carrying on business in copartnership with Edgar Morgan and Samuel Richards, at Briton Ferry, in the county of Glamorgan, as Colliery Proprietors, under the style of the Jersey Coal Company.'[2]


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Sources of Information

  1. 'A Legacy from Victorian Enterprise: The Briton Ferry Ironworks and the daughter companies' by C. W. Roberts, 1983
  2. [1] London Gazette, 29 Aug 1882