Pontypool Foundry Access & Gutter Cover, Lowlands Road, Pontnewydd, Cwmbran 24 January 2019
A Pontypool Foundry & Engineering Company access cover combined with a gulley cover.
In 1871, a small screw steamboat was launched at Coedygric, Griffithstown, on the Monmouthshire- Brecon Canal. It had been made by Davies & Pratt of the Pontypool Foundry & Engineering Works. In 1874 this works was purchased by a Sampson Copestake and became Panteg Foundry. Copestake built a steel smelting works on the site. The largest casting ever made in Monmouthshire, one weighing 100-120 tons, was made in this foundry as a foundation block for No. 1 Hammer. A surviving wall at Panteg Forge bears the date 1869 and the 1901 OS map shows the site as disused. Today a scrap metal merchant occupies the location.
Pontypool Foundry Access & Gutter Cover, Lowlands Road, Pontnewydd, Cwmbran 24 January 2019
A Pontypool Foundry & Engineering Company access cover combined with a gulley cover.
In 1871, a small screw steamboat was launched at Coedygric, Griffithstown, on the Monmouthshire- Brecon Canal. It had been made by Davies & Pratt of the Pontypool Foundry & Engineering Works. In 1874 this works was purchased by a Sampson Copestake and became Panteg Foundry. Copestake built a steel smelting works on the site. The largest casting ever made in Monmouthshire, one weighing 100-120 tons, was made in this foundry as a foundation block for No. 1 Hammer. A surviving wall at Panteg Forge bears the date 1869 and the 1901 OS map shows the site as disused. Today a scrap metal merchant occupies the location.