User:PotentPotables/Dowlais
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![]() Painting of Dowlais Ironworks by George Childs (1840) | |
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Location | Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales |
Production | |
Products | Iron |
History | |
Opened | 1759 |
The Dowlais Ironworks was an ironworks located at Dowlais near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales.
History
[edit]Dowlais was founded in 1759.[1]: 22
The truck shop opened at Dowlais in 1800, but it was less profitable than the shops at its rival ironworks.[2]: 524
In 1930, Dowlais finally closed causing around 4,000 to lose their jobs.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Thomas, Erin Ann (2012). "A Welsh Coal Miner". Coal in our Veins. University Press of Colorado. ISBN 978-0-87421-863-3. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ^ Pollard, Sidney (1964). "The Factory Village in the Industrial Revolution". The English Historical Review. 79 (312). Oxford University Press. ISSN 0013-8266. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
- ^ "Closed Works". The Times. 7 January 1935. p. 18. Retrieved 23 March 2020.