Governor and Co of Copper Miners in England
of Cwm Avon Works, Talbach
1691 Incorporated by Royal Charter
1841 The Governor and Co of Copper Miners in England arrived in Cwm Avon[1]
1851 Great Exhibition: obtained Certificate of Honour for tin-plates, and Prize Medal for railway iron
1855 Grande Medallic d'Honneur for railway iron at the Paris Exhibition
1876 Went into liquidation due to the general problems facing the iron-trade. Their great works (presumably Cwm Avon) had cost the Corporation over a million and a quarter pounds.
1881 Copper Miners Tinplate Co were successors of the Governor and Company of Copper Miners in England