The History of the Iron, Steel, Tinplate and ... Other Trades of Wales: With Descriptive Sketches of the Land and the People During the Great Industrial Era Under ReviewJoseph Williams, 1903 - 448 pages |
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Aberdare Abernant afterwards amongst Anthony Hill Bacon Bailey bar iron became Bessemer Blaenavon Blakemore blast furnaces Booker Brecon Briton Ferry brought Bute cables Caerphilly Cardiff career carried Castle century collieries Company connection copper Cwmavon Cyfarthfa David death died district Dowlais Ebbw Vale engineer England erected Evans forge Fothergill friends Gadlys Glamorgan hand Hirwain Homfray honour House industry interest iron and steel iron trade ironmaking ironmaster ironworks John Guest Jones labour land lease Llanelly Llwydcoed London Lord manager manufacture Menelaus Merthyr Tydfil Messrs mill mineral mines Monmouthshire Morgan mountain Neath notice passed Pentyrch Penydarren pig iron pioneers plates Plymouth Pontypool Pontypridd puddling furnaces rails railway rent retired Rhymney Richard Crawshay rolls Roman scene Sir John Sir W. T. Lewis smelting South Wales success Swansea Thomas tinplate tons took Tredegar valley village visited Vivian Welsh William Crawshay workmen
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Page 179 - There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Page 73 - And a small spot of ground for the use of the spade too, With a barn for the use of the flail: A cow for my dairy, a dog for my game, And a purse when a friend wants to borrow; I'll envy no nabob his riches or fame, Nor what honours await him to-morrow.
Page 21 - I have sent this Bearer to you to desire we may have your furtherance and assistance in procuring some necessaries to be cast in the Iron-furnaces in your county of Carmarthen, which will the better enable us to reduce the Town and Castle of Pembroke. The principal things are : Shells for our Mortarpiece ; the depth of them we desire may be of fourteen inches and three-quarters of an inch.
Page 320 - ... of travelling to the place where these plates are made, and from thence to bring away the art of making them. Upon which, an able fire-man, that well understood the nature of iron, was made choice of to accompany me ; and being fitted with an ingenious interpreter that well understood the language, and that had dealt much in that commodity, we marched first for Hamburgh, then to Leipsic, and from thence to Dresden, the Duke of Saxony's court, where we had notice of the place where the plates...
Page 72 - I'm declining, May my fate no less fortunate be Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for reclining, And a cot that o'erlooks the wide sea; With an ambling pad-pony to pace o'er the lawn, While I carol away idle sorrow, And blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn Look forward with hope for to-morrow. With a porch at my door, both for shelter and...
Page 73 - Which I've worn for three-score years and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hovering, Nor my thread wish to spin o'er again: But my face in the glass I'll serenely survey, And with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow; As this old worn-out stuff, which is threadbare to-day May become everlasting to-morrow.
Page 30 - WE came na here to view your warks In hopes to be mair wise, But only, lest we gang to hell, It may be nae surprise. But when we tirl'd at your door, Your porter dought na hear us ; Sae may, shou'd we to hell's yetts come, Your billy Satan sair us ! LINES ON BEING ASKED WHY GOD HAD MADE MISS DAVIES SO LITTLE AND MRS.
Page 21 - Mortarpiece; the depth of them we desire may be of fourteen inches and three-quarters of an inch. That which I desire at your hands is, To cause the service to be performed, and that with all possible expedition ; that so, if it be the will of God, the service being done, these poor wasted countries may be freed from the burden of the Army.
Page 320 - the usefulness of tin-plates, and the goodness of our metals for that purpose, I did (about sixteen years since*) endeavour to find out the way for making thereof; whereupon, I acquainted a person of much riches, and one that was very understanding in the iron manufacture ; who was pleased to say, that he had often designed to get the trade into England, but never could find out the way. Upon •which it...
Page 21 - God, the service being done, these poor wasted countries may be freed from the burden of the Army. In the next place, we desire some D cannon-shot, and some culverin-shot, may with all possible speed be cast for us, and hasted to us also. We give you thanks for your care in helping us with bread and [word lost].