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 162,253 pages of information and 244,496 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.

F. Bankart and Sons

From Graces Guide

of Red Jacket Works, Briton Ferry, Glamorganshire.

c.1853 Established copper works at Briton Ferry in conjunction with Sweetland, Tuttle and Co, to take advantage of the local supplies of coal and the shipping facilities from nearby harbours

On the retirement of Mr Bankart, the works were taken over by Mr Barclay.

Barclay sold the copper works to the Cape Copper Mining Co.


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Sources of Information

  • History of the Iron, Steel, Tinplate and Other Trades of Wales, by Charles Wilkins, 2011