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The works area has now been re-developed as an industrial museum with special emphasis on the tinplate industry. Among the relics of the tinplate works are a water-powered mill, a plaque of 1801 recording a rebuilding of that year, and | The works area has now been re-developed as an industrial museum with special emphasis on the tinplate industry. Among the relics of the tinplate works are a water-powered mill, a plaque of 1801 recording a rebuilding of that year, and large steam engines which powered the rollin mills. At the north end of the site the headframe and winding engine from [[Morlais Colliery]] have been re-erected. | ||
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Revision as of 09:04, 2 February 2020
of Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales
See also Kidwelly Industrial Museum
1737 Tinplate manufacture started at Kidwelly on the site of an earlier forge.
1880s Installed an engine from Foden
1923 The South Wales Tinplate Corporation was registered - which represented a selling organisation for: [1]
- Richard Thomas and Co (who own six works in Carmarthenshire);
- Kidwelly Tinplate Co;
- Ashburnham Tinplate Co, Burry Port;
- Old Castle Iron and Tin Plate Co, Llanelly;
- Western Tinplate Works, Llanelly.
1931 The last four works above resigned from the Corporation.
1939 A founder of the Llanelly Associated Tinplate Companies[2]
1941 Production ended
The works area has now been re-developed as an industrial museum with special emphasis on the tinplate industry. Among the relics of the tinplate works are a water-powered mill, a plaque of 1801 recording a rebuilding of that year, and large steam engines which powered the rollin mills. At the north end of the site the headframe and winding engine from Morlais Colliery have been re-erected.
See Also
Sources of Information
- [2] Coflein - Kidwelly