The Melingriffith Tin Plate Works (also known as Melingriffith Tin and Iron Works; Welsh: Melingruffydd; meaning: "Griffith's Mill") were post medieval...
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Whitchurch, Cardiff (section Melingriffith Tin Works)
of the parish rose from 19,827 to 27,325. Built in 1749, the Melingriffith Tin Plate Works in north Whitchurch, on the bank of the River Taff opposite...
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Iron Works was opened in Gwaelod-y-Garth in 1740 (Gwaelod-y-Garth was then in the parish of Pentyrch). It supplied iron to the Melingriffith Tin Plate Works...
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residents of Radyr worked in the Melingriffith Tin Plate Works, on the other side of the River Taff in Whitchurch. The works opened in 1749 and closed in...
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The Melingriffith Brass Band of the Melingriffith Tin Plate Works of Whitchurch, Cardiff, south Wales, is a brass band that was one of the best known...
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of Cyfartha, around 1793 to return precious water from the Melingriffith Tin Plate Works to the Glamorganshire Canal. The water pump is a scheduled monument...
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works in Gloucestershire: Lydbrook in 1871 and Lydney in 1876. He went on to acquire local collieries and, in 1888, the Melingriffith Tin Plate Works...
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adopted by Excelsior Rope Works when the Melingriffith Tin Plate Works closed down, and then they became the Excelsior Rope Works Band. The decline in industrial...
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Cement Works". Industrial Railway Society. Retrieved 28 December 2010. Industrial Railway Society 1976, p. 122 & 161. "GWR Class Ystalyfera Tin Works 0-4-0...
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molten tin. Melingriffith Tin Plate Works Grade II* listed buildings in Rhondda Cynon Taf Cadw. "Former Rolling Mill at Treforest Tinplate Works (13510)"...
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the line of the canal. The section from Tongwynlais to the Melingriffith Tin Plate Works at Whitchurch has been retained in water and was used for fishing...
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management of the Melingriffith Tin Plate Works in Whitchurch at the end of the 18th century. Eventually, he became sole owner of the works, and was directing...
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growing too small for the growing population (which the new Melingriffith Tin Plate Works had bolstered to 696), the issue of the church's inadequate...
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John Allen Thomas Bennett Richard Blakemore, the owner of the Melingriffith Tin Plate Works in Whitchurch, Cardiff, local landowner and Member of Parliament...
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Luke Booker (section Selected works)
Thomas William Booker, was adopted by Blakemore, raised at Melingriffith Tin Plate Works, and became MP for Herefordshire. The daughter was Harriet-Esther...
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Thomas William Booker-Blakemore (section Partial works)
Richard Blakemore of Velindre House, who brought him up at the Melingriffith Tin Plate Works. Booker took an active role in the affairs of politics, serving...
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received from the Llandaff Church Extension Society and the Melingriffith Tin Plate Works, and the church's founding stone was laid in 1875 with John...
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Bryngwyn collieries Pentyrch tramroad 1815 Pentyrch Iron Works to Melingriffith Tin Plate Works Converted to a light steam railway in 1871 Sir William Smith's...
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Richard Blakemore, who owned the Pentyrch ironworks and the Melingriffith Tin Plate Works, and who wanted surplus water to be returned to the river, but...
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