Newbridge Chain and Anchor Works
1812 Captain Samuel Brown established a company (known as Samuel Brown and Co and also Brown, Lenox and Co) with his cousin Samuel Lenox, based initially at Millwall in east London from 1812
1816 A larger works was established at Pontypridd (the site of a nail works previously operated by William Crawshay Brown), at Ynysangharad, beside the Glamorganshire Canal, close to large reserves of iron and coal.
Also referred to as Patent Iron Cable Works.
His firm went on to supply all the chain to the Royal Navy until 1916, and made the chains for Brunel's SS Great Eastern.
Works established in 1816; supplied chains and anchors to the British Navy. Most buildings dated from the late nineteenth century, including the chain testing house which is still operational. Site visited B.A.Malaws, RCAHMW, May 1979. 2. Brown Lenox chain and anchor works of 1816 where, as well as for other later famous liners and warships, the chains for Brunel's Great Eastern and the QE2 were manufactured. Little remains of the original chain works, most of the ground being occupied by large DIY stores.