Some unsuccessful blast furnaces of the early coke era
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Jan 29, 2022
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A list, compiled in 1788, of coke-fired blast furnaces which were both built and abandoned between 1750 and 1788, survives amongst other lists of ironworks in the Boulton & Watt archive at Birmingham Reference Library. The 14 furnaces listed there, plus one other with a similar history, are located on the ground and their history discussed in the light of other evidence. The paper forms part of the author's wider study of contemporary statistical evidence relating to the British iron industry in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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A Birch. The economic history of the British iron and steel industry 1784-1879. Essays in industrial and economic history with special reference to the development of technology (1967).
Ruth R Brown. 'The Woolwich proof registers 1780-1781', International Journal of Nautical Archaeology and Underwater Exploration, 17 (1988), 105-111.
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W H Chaloner. 'Isaac Wilkinson, potfounder', in Studies in the industrial revolution presented to T S Ashton, ed. L S Pressnell (1960), 23-51.
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C Evans. 'Failure in a new technology: smelting iron with coke in south Gloucestershire in the 1770s', Trans. Bristol and Gloucs. Archaeological Soc., 109 (1991), 199-206.
C Evans. 'Opportunity and omission in the industrialization of the north east: ironmaking at Bedlington in the eighteenth century', Northern History (forthcoming).
H A Fletcher. 'The archaeology of the west Cumberland iron trade', Trans. Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian Society, 1st series, 5 (1881), 5-21.
R Grant. Cynon Valley in the age of iron (Aberdare, 1991).
H Green. 'Melin-y-Cwrt Furnace. Earth, air, fire and water', Trans. Neath Antiquarian Soc. (1980-1), 43-80.
JE Hickey. Dukinfield past and present (Stalybridge, 1926).
W Hutchinson. The history and antiquities of the county palatine of Durham (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1787).
J Y Lancaster and D R Wattleworth. The iron and steel industry of west Cumberland: an historical survey (Workington, 1977).
J D Marshall and M Davies-Shiel. The industrial archaeology of the Lake Counties (Newton Abbot, 1969).
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A N Palmer. John Wilkinson and the old Bersham ironworks (Wrexham, 1899).
DR Phillips. The history of the Vale of Neath (Swansea, 1925).
A Raistrick. Quakers in science and industry. Being an account of the Quaker contribution to science and industry during the 17th and 18th centuries (2nd ed., Newton Abbot, 1968).
A Raistrick and E Allen. 'The south Yorkshire ironmasters (1690-1750)', Economic History Review, 9 (1939), 168-85.
Riden, P. 'The output of the British iron industry before 1870', Economic History Review, 2nd series, 30 (1977), 442-59.
P Riden. 'Eighteenth-century blast furnaces: a new checklist', Historical Metallurgy, 12 (1978), 36-9.
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P Riden. John Bedford and the ironworks at Cefn Cribwr Cardiff, 1992).
P Riden and J G Owen. British blast furnace statistics, 1794-1980 ( forthcoming).
S Rudder. A new history of Gloucestershire, comprising the topography, antiquities, curiosities, produce, trade, and manufactures of that county (Cirencester, 1779).
H R Schubert. History of the British iron and steel industry from c. 450 B. C. to A.D. 1775 (1957).
H C Tomlinson. 'Wealden gunfounding: an analysis of its demise in the eighteenth century', Economic History Review, 2nd series, 29 (1976), 383-400.
B Trinder. The industrial revolution in Shropshire (Chichester, 2nd ed. 1981).
R F Tylecote. 'A survey of iron and steel making sites in the Tyne-Wear area of the United Kingdom', Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Bulletin, 76 (1983), 90-101.
J Wallis. The natural history and antiquities of Northumberland and so much of the County of Durham, as lies between the Rivers Tyne and Tweed (1769).
G Yates. Map of the county of Glamorgan (1799; facsimile ed. with introduction by G Walters and B James, South Wales Record Society, 2, 1984).
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Riden, P. (2022). Some unsuccessful blast furnaces of the early coke era. Historical Metallurgy, 26, 36-44. https://hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/513
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Riden, P. (2022). Some unsuccessful blast furnaces of the early coke era. Historical Metallurgy, 26, 36-44. https://hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/513