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1869 One of the blast furnaces was put out of use | 1869 One of the blast furnaces was put out of use | ||
1920 The Rockingham and Thorncliffe coke oven and by-products works were put into a separate company: [[Thorncliffe Coal Distillation]] Ltd<ref>The Engineer 1921</ref> | |||
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George Newton and Thomas Chambers formed Newton, Chambers and Co, which started out as an iron works but later expanded into coal and ironstone mining and the chemical byproducts of coal.[1]
1857 Patent application by Edmund Edwards and Edward Beacher, of the Thorncliffe and Chapeltown Iron Works, near Sheffield, have given, the like notice in respect of the invention of "improvements in machinery or apparatus for washing or cleansing mineral and other substances."[2]
1869 One of the blast furnaces was put out of use
1920 The Rockingham and Thorncliffe coke oven and by-products works were put into a separate company: Thorncliffe Coal Distillation Ltd[3]