Tame Iron Co
of Bovereux Works, Bilston
1849 Bovereux Furnaces were established by William Baldwin and Co.
1849 Hunt lists 2 furnaces in blast.
1862-70 The site was called Bovereux Lower and Bovereux thereafter.
1867 2 blast furnaces built, 1 in blast. Good mine iron. [1]
1870 Brothers Thomas and James Holcroft took over the Bovereux Furnaces of Tame Iron Co, where they smelted a brand of South Staffordshire mine iron.
1881 Bovereaux furnace
1886 unoccupied.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Griffiths. 1867. Guide to Iron Trade of Great Britain
- [1] Black Country History