Coed Talon Iron Works

2025. Cast iron girder on Hoole Way Bridge (Chester)

2025. Cast iron girder on Hoole Way Bridge (Chester)

Coed Talon (Coed Talreyn) is a small village between Leeswood and Treuddyn/Tryddyn, near Mold, Flintshire, N. Wales.

1830 'Flintshire.— Very valuable and important Iron Works and Collieries; also some Freehold Lands, and 72 Cottages, upon which upwards of 35,000l. have been expended within the last three years.
- By Mr. HOGGART, at the Mart, on Friday, Feb. 12, at Twelve (unless previously disposed of by Private Contract), in One Lot, THE Coed Talon Iron Works and Collieries, in Leeswood, near Mold, in North Wales, five miles from Mold, 12 from the city of Chester, and 30 from Liverpool; comprising a Freehold Estate, containing about 50 acres of land and 72 cottages, now let at a rental of 200l. per annum. Also, the right of working the coal and ironstone in and under 1,146 acres, in the parishes of Leeswood and Trydden, held under four leases. Also, a railway for the conveyance of coal and iron to the wharf at Pont Bleddin ; together with all the furnaces, engine and other houses, which have been erected and established at a considerable expense and are now in work. The iron has been long celebrated for its excellent qualities, particularly for every description of fine machine work, and commands in the Liverpool and Manchester markets an extensive sale, where it is selected in preference to any other iron. The Sale Colliery has been long established, and has a considerable extent of business, the profits having been upwards of 2,500l. per annum, which might be considerably increased. It is fairly presumed that, upon a moderate increase in the value of Iron, these mines would produce a net income of 15,000l. per annum, with a small capital employed.
— May be viewed, and particulars had on the premises; at ....'

1845 'A fatal accident occurred at Coed Talon Iron Works, near Mold, on Wednesday last. A youth, named Hopkins, about 16, whose turn it was to be up at night, came on duty about 10 o'clock. He went into the engine house, and laid down; be had scarcely lain ten minutes when the boiler burst, blowing up the engine house, one of the walls of which fell upon the unfortunate youth, killing him upon the spot.'

1848 'There are now being cast at the Coed Talon Iron Works, near Chester, some of the largest railway girders ever made in North Wales. They are about 53 feet long, and weigh about eleven tons each!'

1848 'RAILWAYS. There are now casting at the Coed Talon Iron Works, near Mold, some of the largest girders for railways which have ever been made in North Wales, these girders are nearly fifty-three feet long, and weigh about eleven tons each. Their destination is London.'

1851 'SEIZURE OF GUNPOWDER. - On Saturday afternoon, Mr Hill, Superintendent of Police, observed a cart in Grosvenor street laden with 40 casks of gunpowder, the usual precautions to secure which not having the method prescribed in 12th Geo. IV. c. 61, the cask were seized and sent to the magazines at the barracks. The powder was conveyed so carelessly that it was running from some of the casks into the cart. The casks proved to belong to Mr Edward Oakley, of the Coed Talon Iron Works, and were, when seized, in the charge of his carter, Edward Edwards. An application was made to the magistrates on Monday by Mr Oakley's agent for the restoration of the powder, but the magistrates intimated that they had not power to make such an order, as it had become forfeited by the Act above-named.'

1861 Sale Notice: 'SALE AT THE COED TALON IRON WORKS, Near Mold, in the county of Flint, abunt three miles from Hope Station, on the Chester and Mold Railway.
WILLIAM JONES has received positive instructions to SELL BY AUCTION, on Monday, the 21st October, 1861, at 11 for 12 o'clock, noon, (under a distress for rent) without the least reserve, a quantity of BAR IRON of various sizes, about 8 tons, part of which has been worked into various articles for the use of the furnaces, such as tuyeres, charging barrows, blast engine, weighing machines, smiths' tools, &c., viz. 12 tuyeres about half finished, and also 8 charging barrows half finished, 24 shovels for the furnace, 6 water buckets, quantity of sand riddles,&c., also about 10 tons cast iron materials, consisting of about 100 yards of 3 and 4 inch water pipes, also 18 wheels for charging barrows, large and small water troughs, several binding plates for small furnaces, ditto tools for the purpose of making water tuyeres, ditto sets of castings for portable cranes, &c.
SMITH'S TOOLS, &c. comprising 1 pair of large bellows 40 inches wide, 1 ditto ditto 34 inches c, 1 ditto 32 inches wide, 1 large double piked smith's anvil, 2 single piked ditto, large beck anvil for welding tuyeres, 3 large and small filters, vices, 2 pair of screwing stocks, with taps and dies complete, quite new.
Also quantity of files, smith's tongs, hammers, punches, chisels, mandrills, &c., a large quantity of nails and sprigs of various sizes, for the use of carpenters and pattern makers; a quantity of rivets of different sizes, a quantity of steel, ditto gas fittings, ditto packing ropes and hemp, ditto leather, brasses, boiler plate furnace, small iron furnace for welding tuyeres, 1 large weighing machine, and small ditto.
A large quantity of TIMBER, consisting of 3 inch planks, ditto rafters, ditto deal boards, larch poles, &c. A part of the Machinery will be sold, if required. Cash payments on fall of the hammer. Auctioneer's Office, Hawarden.'

1979 'HISTORY CORNER Black treasure that made village prosper by Frank Marriott
A newspaper article described the development of Treuddyn. Excellent coal and iron-stone were found at nearby Coed Talon. Collieries were constructed in 1821, and the works were sold in 1825 to the Welsh Iron Co. Edward Oakeley acquired the complex in 1830 retained possession for at least 20 years. The Iron was found to be particularly suitable for light machinery.'

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