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Title: Griffiths' Guide to the iron trade of Great Britain ... an elaborate review of the iron (and) coal trades for last year, addresses and names of all ironmasters, with a list of blast furnaces, iron manufactories, and other statistics and information respecting iron and coal ..
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Griffiths, Samuel, editor of "The London Iron Trade Exchange"
Subjects: Coal trade Iron industry and trade
Publisher: London, Published for the Proprietor
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Patent Nut and Bolt Company, the Patent Eivet Com-pany, the Plate Glass Company, and Joshua Hortonsboiler yard, of world-wide fame, are all situated atSmethwick. West Bromwich and Hilltop are contiguous; here enamelled and tinned pots, kettles, and saucepans are manufactured, in all shapes and sizes, on the most ex- oidbury in tcusivc scalc. Oldbury lives close by, where with bated pulsation, under a constant cloud of black smoke, the idvifying rays of the sun being obscm^ed here by the volumes of almost material carbon floating in the atmosphere. On the one hand there is the destructive effect of the smoke on vegetation, on the other, of the Injurious hydrocliloric, sulphurous, and chlorine gas evolved from acid gases, uunierous cliemical works almost in the heart of this devoted township. Bright grates and fire-irons become rusty in a single night, and all household furniture, which is held together by appliances of Iron, suffers much, and all other metals are damaged by these gases
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GETTING COAL AT ONE OF EARL DUDLEYS THICK COAL PITS. DESCRIPTION OF OLDBURY. 4< in the same proportion. Iron mines and collieries sur-round the town, the workmen, on their return fromwork at the pits in tlie evening, show honourable tracesof the useful labour they have performed, in the soiledgarments and dirty faces they present. Vegetation suc-cumbs altogether ; scarcely a shrub, a tree, or a greenfield is to be seen, amid the general devastation of tliesurface, wliich presents itself for miles round. The mo-notony of the landscape being broken only by irregularmounds of earth and mountains of furnace cinders, tliefonner being the disembowelled crust of the earth, re-moved and brought to grass by the toiling miners, insearch of tlie valuable Ironstone and black diamonds,so plentiful in the geological fonnations of the entiredistrict surrounding Oldbur). The heaps of furnacecinders are the glassy refuse of molten sihca, and lime,wliich the blast furnace thscharges in her process o

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