Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
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1810 Acquired Melingriffith Ironworks with Richard Blakemore as managing director. Under his direction the enterprise prospered exceedingly.
Acquired the Pentyrch Forge and opened collieries in that neighbourhood, and built a tramway linking Pentyrch and Melingriffith.
1820 Blakemore adopted a nephew, Thomas William Booker, who in time succeeded to the business and traded as T. W. Booker and Co.
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