Lanesfield Ironworks

of Lanesfield Ironworks, Spring Vale, near Wolverhampton

1866 Formerly occupied by Jones and Murcott. Labour dispute with their puddlers

1870 'FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION. A fatal and destructive explosion happened on Tuesday night the Lanesfield Ironworks, Spring Yale, near Wolverhampton, belonging Messrs H. de Simencourt and Co. A boiler burst whilst the workpeople were chanhging turns. The body of John Shorthouse. the fireman, was dug out of the ruins; and Enoch Elwell, a shearer, remains there, and his corpse is being searched for. A considerable number of other workpeople are injured — some, it is feared, fatally; and the works are damaged, bat can resume in a week. Tbe boiler was under official inspection, but was not insured.'

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