Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Aqueduct Iron Works

From Graces Guide

in Birmingham

1825 Sale Notice: 'Stock of Iron &c., ........ at the Bordesley and Aqueduct Iron Works and Pagoda Foundry, at Bordesley, near Birmingham (by the direction of the of Assignees of Messrs. Hooton, Richards and Wilkes, bankrupts), the extensive Stock at the above Works and Foundry; comprising about twelve tons of ballast iron, thirty tons of No. one and two Lightmoor, Ketley, and Buffery pig iron, ten tons refined iron, twenty tons of common puddled bars, eighty tons charcoal, best scrap and common blooms and slabs, sixty tons charcoal, hesi and common merchant iron, assorted sizes down to 1/4 inch diameter, twenty tons of sheet iron, thirty tons old cast iron, ten tons of castings, fifteen ions of old wrought iron and scraps, forge and mill tools, twelve tons foundry boxes, a high pressure Steam Engine, four horse power, a new horizontal blowing machine, by Vaughan, of Sheffield, two thousand Winchester bushels of charcoal, a lot of coke, a large crane, unfinished, a good collection wood and iron patterns, lathe for turning wood patterns, sham and register grates, Stourbridge fire bricks, various sizes, foundry tools, forty tons coals and slack, a punching press, eight brass and four steel fenders, fire-irons, new anvils, bellows and smith’s tools every description, a coke waggon, a cart, an iron chest, &c. See. Catalogues may be had and after Wednesday the 7th of September, application to the Auctioneers, .... '[1]


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Sources of Information

  1. Birmingham Chronicle - Thursday 8 September 1825