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    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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    and Wales, but later mainly in south Wales, most notably the Melingriffith Tin Plate Works, Whitchurch, Cardiff, which was founded some time before 1750...
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    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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    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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    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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