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 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 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.

Hodbarrow Mining Co

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of Millom, Cumbria.

1880 Cedric Vaughan; the managing director. [1]

1927 producing over 150,000 tons of Haematite[2].

1951 Nationalised under the Iron and Steel Act; became part of the Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain[3]

1958 Private sale of the company by the Holding and Realization Agency[4].

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1880/08/13
  2. The Basic Industries of Great Britain by Aberconway: Chapter VIII
  3. Hansard 19 February 1951
  4. The Times, 19 December 1958