Still Standing
Location: Ystradgynlais, near Swansea, Powys
The ironworks developed from a blast furnace built in 1696. There was a succession of owners, but no great success until the works was taken over in the early 1820s by George Crane of Bromsgrove. In 1837 there were three blast furnaces in production, increased to six by 1853. A tinplate works of three mills was built on the ironworks site in 1889. It was operative for sixty years and its plant was finally dismantled in, 1946 under the Tinplate Redundancy Scheme [1]
Still Standing
Location: Ystradgynlais, near Swansea, Powys
The ironworks developed from a blast furnace built in 1696. There was a succession of owners, but no great success until the works was taken over in the early 1820s by George Crane of Bromsgrove. In 1837 there were three blast furnaces in production, increased to six by 1853. A tinplate works of three mills was built on the ironworks site in 1889. It was operative for sixty years and its plant was finally dismantled in, 1946 under the Tinplate Redundancy Scheme [1]