Tipton Old Church Iron and Tinplate Works

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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