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    The Low Moor Ironworks was a wrought iron foundry established in 1791 in the village of Low Moor about 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Bradford in Yorkshire...
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  • Low Moor may refer to: Low Moor, Bradford, England Low Moor railway station Low Moor Ironworks Low Moor Explosion Low Moor F.C., football club from Clitheroe...
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    1790 due to the establishment and subsequent rapid growth of the Low Moor Ironworks which was to become a worldwide name. The rapid rise in the number...
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    The Low Moor Explosion was a fire and a series of explosions at a munitions factory in Low Moor, Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire in August 1916. The...
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    (1773 – 29 September 1855) was a barrister, the main owner of the Low Moor ironworks, and represented Bradford in the House of Commons from 1832 to 1837...
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    is "Dawson Hardy Field, Low Moor Ironworks, Yorkshire, England".Dawson,Hardy and Field were directors of this major ironworks from c1790 . The Siddhivinayak...
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  • Company) at the Railway Foundry, Leeds, UK, and in 1851 joined the Low Moor Ironworks Company in Bradford, as a consulting engineer. James Fenton was born...
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    further decarburization occurred. The process was taken up at the Low Moor Ironworks at Bradford in Yorkshire (England) in 1851 and in the Loire valley...
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    His father was a barrister and businessman, the main owner of the Low Moor ironworks and also represented Bradford in Parliament as a Conservative. His...
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    between 1839 and 1852, designed the cannon in 1846. It was cast by the Low Moor Iron Works in Bradford in 1847 and entered service soon after. Like numerous...
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  • There was more and more demand for limestone to be used in the new Low Moor Ironworks, Bradford, for iron smelting. It took years to solve the problems...
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    linked to quarries by a tramway. Much of the limestone went to the Low Moor Ironworks in Bradford, where it was used in the smelting of iron. It was also...
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  • Holdsworth Dawson, whose grandfather was one of the founders of the Low Moor Ironworks, and Susan married William Millthorpe Spence M.D. Through these marriages...
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    throughout the day. At 4.30pm the event was celebrated by 40 agents of the Low Moor Ironworks at Buttershaw House, with many toasts and speeches. The cannon "poured...
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  • Airedale College founded. 1788 – Bowling Iron Works in business. 1791 – Low Moor Ironworks established near town. 1801 – Population: 13,264. 1816 – 21 April:...
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  • population loss through this time. The Ironworks too closed in the 1920s. Belmont, Broomside, Carrville and Gilesgate Moor were still village-like until the...
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    hematite iron ore. The ironworks were in operation for around 20 years. Airds Moss is one of the few areas of comparatively low-altitude blanket bog left...
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    church was endowed by John Hardy, a majority share holder in the Low Moor Ironworks, and was consecrated on 14 June 1850. Lucius Smith the first Bishop...
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    Aydon & Ewell in Bradford, a firm which later became part of the Low Moor Ironworks. The bridge replaced an earlier structure dating from 1783, (and a...
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  • From 1845 to 1856 Wilson was employed by the Low Moor Ironworks near Bradford in Yorkshire. While at Low Moor he improved the steam hammer with the "circular...
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  • Boleyn Ground, in 2016. West Ham United was founded in 1895 as Thames Ironworks and reformed in 1900 as West Ham United. It moved to the Boleyn Ground...
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    Harold was for several years the Manager of the Low Moor Ironworks and also a partner. He resided at Low Moor House and took an active part in the well-being...
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    The civil parish includes the villages of Kirk Merrington, Middlestone Moor, Byers Green and Tudhoe. In 2011 the parish had a population of 19,816. The...
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    metalworking and chemical industries were undertaken at Low Moor south of the dale although Bierley Ironworks consumed most of the coal worked within the dale...
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    the Manor. The same seams of ironstone and coal were exploited by the Low Moor Iron Company, founded in 1788, and then by the Bierley Iron Company from...
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    the line's role. The station was next to a branch to Cleator Moor's dominant ironworks run by the Workington Haematite Iron Company. Iron ore arrived...
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    Moor Row railway station was built by the Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway. It served the village of Moor Row, Cumbria, England. Moor Row became...
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    grade II listed Warren Moor Mine chimney – grade II listed Bolckow, Vaughan Cleveland Ironstone Formation Grosmont ironworks Losh, Wilson and Bell Rosedale...
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    Robert was born in 1803, and in 1804 they moved to Dial Cottage at West Moor, near Killingworth where George worked as a brakesman at Killingworth Pit...
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  • partner for a firm involving some of the Coalbrookdale ironworks partners at Bersham ironworks. Wood hoped to make a profit producing coins for use in...
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