Loudoun Foundry
of Butetown, Cardiff
1875 'PATENT CORRUGATED, AND ARCHED TOP ANNEALING POTS AND STANDS, which has been well tested. For references, apply to Aberdare Tin Works Co., Treforest Tin Co., Mellin Griffith Tin Works Co., Maesteg Tin Works Co., and others in Llanelly. Maker, Mr C. Williams, Loudoun Foundry, Cardiff.'[1]
Proprietor: Charles Williams.
1878 Advert: 'WANTED a LAD accustomed to drive stationary engine.— Apply to Jones & Co, Loudoun Foundry, Cardiff.'[2]
Perhaps the successful caandidate did not meet expectations, as we find a later advert:-
'WANTED, a Lad to drive an Engine; must know his duties. Apply at Loudoun Foundry, Cardiff.' [3]
The Loudoun Foundry (Iron) was depicted on the 1880 OS 25inch map (surveyed 1876-8). It is not clear whether the foundry was in a small building next to the Bute Chain Testing House, or in a slightly larger triangular building wedged between the Glamorganshire Canal and a row of houses on Loudoun Square. Probably the latter, given the name of the square, and....
'CITY OF CARDIFF. DUMBALLS-ROAD AND LOUDOUN-SQUARE, THE TITAN AND CHRISTIES FOUNDRIES. MESSRS STEPHENSON and ALEXANDER (F.A.I.) are instructed to SELL by AUCTION. at the Mart. 5, High-street, Cardiff, on THURSDAY, October 20th. at Seven o'clock in the Evening, the above FOUNDRIES, Together with the GOODWILL OF THE BUSINESS. Further Particulars .....'[4]