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    The Consett Iron Company Ltd was an industrial business based in the Consett area of County Durham in the United Kingdom. The company owned coal mines...
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    Moorside and Castleside. The Consett Iron Company was established in 1864 as a successor to the original Derwent Iron Company of 1840, when the first blast...
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  • Richardson, of Shotley Park, founder of the Derwent Iron Company (later the Consett Iron Company). The farm buildings at West Law (to the south of East...
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  • High Westwood (category Consett)
    Westwood colliery began operation in the 1870s and was owned by Consett Iron Company. It ceased operations in 1964. With the closure of the colliery in...
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    Delves Lane (category Consett)
    5284/1059802. Jenkins, William (1893). "The works of the Consett iron Company Limited". The Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute. 43–44: 193. "Durham Mining...
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  • line was bought by the Derwent Iron Company, which later became the Consett Iron Company. Much of the S&TR system was built through hilly, sparsely populated...
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    Leadgate, County Durham (category Consett)
    the Consett Iron Company (about 2 miles away) and which closed in the 1980s. On the current site of Bradley Workshops there was also the Bradley Iron Works...
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  • Consett Association Football Club is a football club based in Consett in County Durham, England. They are currently members of the Northern Premier League...
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  • the Consett Iron Company's own power stations. This was situated in the Templetown area of Consett, and was used to supply electricity to the iron and...
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  • family in a terraced house on Priestman Avenue, Consett. Dryden's father worked for the Consett Iron Company and was described by Police Sergeant David Blackie...
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    for powerful shunters at certain industrial railways like the Consett Iron and Steel Company. Withdrawn in 1972 it passed to Beamish Museum and then the...
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    as chairman of the Consett Iron Company and the mining firm Pease & Partners, and as a director of the North Eastern Railway Company. Dale owes his main...
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    purchased the tram, restoring it to its Gateshead 10 identity at the Consett Iron Company works. The first tram to arrive at the museum, it was used for the...
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    was produced. The company thrived with its new cost-effective production methods, forming alliances with the Consett Iron Company and Krupp. By 1857...
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    of an inch thick, and weighing 1,125 pounds, was exhibited by the Consett Iron Company. Further evolution of the rolling mill came with the introduction...
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    enthusiastic. Only one of the large steel firms in the region, the Consett Iron Company, offered support for a Jarrow steelworks, while other BISF members...
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    Shotley Park (category Consett)
    heavily involved in the Derwent Iron Company (later the Consett Iron Company). With the demise of the Derwent Iron Company and financial crisis, Richardson...
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    Clark, in conjunction with the Consett Iron Company and Messrs. Krupp of Essen, to acquire an extensive tract of iron-ore deposits near Bilbao in Spain...
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    park was founded by the Consett Iron Company. The ground on which the park was built was gifted by the Consett Iron Company to their staff, the gesture...
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    was produced. The company thrived with its new cost-effective production methods, forming alliances with the Consett Iron Company and Krupp. By 1857...
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    end of the main street in Town Beamish Museum. Pockerley Waggonway Consett Iron Company tank wagon 41 Kitchen in the Beamish Museum Bathroom in the Beamish...
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    British Steel (1967–1999) (category Steel companies of the United Kingdom)
    major UK-based steel companies then in operation, being: David Colville & Sons; Consett Iron Company Ltd; Dorman Long & Company Ltd; English Steel Corporation...
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    ore hopper wagons which operated on the heavily inclined Consett line to the Consett Iron Company. These additional pumps allowed automatic discharging of...
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    deputy-chairman of the Steel Company of Wales, a director of the Consett Iron Company and GKN, and chairman of British Iron and Steel Federation. He later...
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  • refer to: William Jenkins (1825–1895), Welsh general manager of Consett Iron Company William Jenkins (coal merchant) (1878–1968), British politician,...
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  • locomotives. Private companies like Manning, Wardle & Company were building locomotives as early as 1858 when E.B. Wilson and Company closed. Later located...
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  • Copeland was born in Consett, County Durham, in the north-east of England, where her father worked for the Consett Iron Company. She grew up in the Blackhill...
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    Medomsley (category Consett)
    in 1856. Both pits were opened by Edward Richardson and Co. The Consett Iron Company took them over in the 1860s. They were nationalised in 1947. Coal...
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    Black, Hawthorn and Company was a steam locomotive manufacturer with a works situated in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, UK. The Quarry Field Works was opened...
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  • admiralty official William Jenkins (1825–1895), Welsh general manager of Consett Iron Company William Jenkins (Australian politician), member of the South Australian...
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