Pontymister Iron Co

1834 Partnership change. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Thomas Peirce and John Llewellin, as Iron-Manufacturers, at Pontymister Works, in the County of Monmouth, under the firm of the Pontymister Iron Company, was this this day dissolved by mutual consent; and that all debts due and owing to and from tb« said concern will be received and paid by the undersigned Thomas Peirce, by whom alone the said business in future is intended to be carried on...'

1843 Mention of D. Jarrett, hammerman of Pontymister Tin Works. His daughter Mary married Thomas Lewis

1857 'Petition of ROBERT THOMAS, now and for Six Calendar Months last past, residing at Pontymister Tin Works, in the Parish of Risca, in the County of Monmouth, within the jurisdiction of this Court, Tin Plate Roller and Contractor, an Insolvent Debtor...'

1859 Listed under Newport and Tin Plate Manufacturers. 'Pontymister Works. Charles Lewis - Agent. Liverpool Wharf'.

1872 Mention of Banks and Co as owners on the Pontymister Tin Works.

1894 Mention of Philip S. Philips as owner of the Pontymister Steel and Tin-plate Works.

1896 'Among the inventions submitted to the committee appointed to adjudicate in connection with the prize offered by the Illustrated Daily Graphic for the best apparatus for throwing a line from a stranded ship to the shore, was the line-throwing gun of Mr. Alfred Edward Garwood, of Newport, Mon., which we illustrate on this page. ....'. Trials were made in a field, near the Pontymister Steel Works Foundry, where the gun was constructed.. The Engineering article included a drawing and test results.

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