A photographic record of a water-powered wire-works at Thurgoland, Yorkshire
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Published
Nov 11, 2021
Abstract
Photographs of Thurgoland Upper Wire Mill, Yorkshire, taken between 1898 and 1913, are reproduced. The text provides a commentary, and outlines of the history of the mill, and of wire drawing using wortle plates.
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Ball C, Crossley D, Flavell N 2006, Water power on the Sheffield rivers (Sheffield).
Barraclough K C 1971, ‘ “Puddled steel”: a forgotten chapter in the history of steelmaking’, Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute 209, 785–9.
Berg T and P (eds) 2001, R R Angerstein’s illustrated travel diary 1753–1755 (London).
Harris M D (ed) 1907–1913, The Coventry Leet Book or Mayor’s Register 1429–1535 (London: Early English Texts Society 134).
Hawthorne J G and Smith C S 1979 (trans), Theophilus’ De Diversis Artibus (New York).
Heine G 1995, ‘The wire drawing bench of the Elector August of Saxony in the Musée de Cluny in Paris’, Tools and Trades 8, 45–55.
Kelly J 1883, 1922, 1927 inter alia, Directory of the West Riding of Yorkshire (London).
Longmuir P 1905, Elementary Practical Metallurgy: Iron and Steel (London).
Longmuir P and Kenworthy J 1913, ‘Notes on early wire-drawing practice’, Engineering 95, 540–3.
Paar H W and Tucker D G 1975, ‘The old ironworks and wireworks of the Angiddy Valley at Tintern, Gwent’, Historical Metallurgy 4, 1–14.
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Rees W 1968, Industry before the Industrial Revolution (Cardiff).
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A photographic record of a water-powered wire-works at Thurgoland, Yorkshire. (2021). Historical Metallurgy, 43(1), 57-65. https://hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/181
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A photographic record of a water-powered wire-works at Thurgoland, Yorkshire. (2021). Historical Metallurgy, 43(1), 57-65. https://hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/181