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* 1793 Ropery opened, owned by Grimshaw, Webster & Co. Steam engine installed in 1795, and said to be the first steam engine to be used in a rope works. ‘Probably the region's oldest factory building and the earliest patent ropery’ (producing rope without a rope walk, using the Fothergill Process).<ref>[http://sine.ncl.ac.uk/view_structure_information.asp?struct_id=1338]SINE website, Deptford Patent Ropery webpage</ref> | * 1793 Ropery opened, owned by Grimshaw, Webster & Co. Steam engine installed in 1795, and said to be the first steam engine to be used in a rope works. ‘Probably the region's oldest factory building and the earliest patent ropery’ (producing rope without a rope walk, using the Fothergill Process).<ref>[http://sine.ncl.ac.uk/view_structure_information.asp?struct_id=1338]SINE website, Deptford Patent Ropery webpage</ref> | ||
* 1891 Webster and Sons of Deptford, Sunderland (assumed to be the same ropery) produced a steel rope 4 miles long and weighing 20 tons, for a colliery in south west England. The cranes at the yard and at the goods station were unable to lift the load all at once, so it was made up into three coils, allowing the slack between them to hang, and the coils were lifted one at a time.<ref>‘The Engineer’ 7th(?) August 1891</ref> | |||
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Webster’s Ropery, also know as Deptford Patent Ropery, Ropery Road, Deptford, Sunderland
- 1793 Ropery opened, owned by Grimshaw, Webster & Co. Steam engine installed in 1795, and said to be the first steam engine to be used in a rope works. ‘Probably the region's oldest factory building and the earliest patent ropery’ (producing rope without a rope walk, using the Fothergill Process).[1]
- 1891 Webster and Sons of Deptford, Sunderland (assumed to be the same ropery) produced a steel rope 4 miles long and weighing 20 tons, for a colliery in south west England. The cranes at the yard and at the goods station were unable to lift the load all at once, so it was made up into three coils, allowing the slack between them to hang, and the coils were lifted one at a time.[2]