Tipton Old Church Iron and Tinplate Works

of Tipton

1832 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership or joint trade subsisting and carried on by and between the undersigned, John Round and Isaac Caddick of Tipton Old Church Iron-Works, Tipton, in the County of Stafford, Iron and Tin-Plate-Manufacturers, was this day dissolved by mutual consent...'

1841 Sale notice (brief extract): 'EXTENSIVE FREEHOLD IRON WORKS, In the Mining District of Staffordshire.
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, by E. & C. ROBINS & Co. ... All that very extensive and valuable FREEHOLD PROPERTY, called Tipton Old Church Iron and Tin-plate Works, situate at Tipton, in the county of Stafford, the whole comprising a site of upwards of 8,000 yards of land.
The Buildings are substantial and in good repair, comprising two very large Forges, Sheet Mill, Foundry, Workshops, Warehouses, Clerk's and Workmen’s Dwellings, &c. and will be sold in the following or in such other lots as may be agreed upon at the time:
— LOT 1,—The very convenient and extensive Iron Works, called the New Forge, warehouses, a superior steam engine of eighty-horse power, with three boilers, six mid or heating furnaces, and eight smelting furnaces. This lot has a considerable frontage to the private basin, and an entrance from Prince End Road....'

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