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    The Fitzroy Iron Works at Mittagong, New South Wales, was the first commercial iron smelting works in Australia. It first operated in 1848. From 1848 to...
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    June 1862. The sheet iron works was never built. By October 1862, Enoch Hughes was already the works manager of the Fitzroy Iron Works, at Mittagong, N.S...
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    thousands of years, created a deposit of iron ore that was mined by the Fitzroy Iron Works, which was closely associated with the early development of the town...
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    about FitzRoy's 'womanising' ways. In 1850, FitzRoy made a visit to Berrima, to inspect the Fitzroy Iron Works. The Governor stayed at the Surveyor General's...
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  • furnaces that were initially designed as cold blast—the Fitzroy Iron Works, Tamar Hematite Iron Company, and Lithgow Valley Ironworks—soon switched, with...
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  • Clipping in LHF, Gas Supply. Fitzroy Gas Works Valve House and Store, City of Yarra Heritage Overlay HO211 Porter Prefabricated Iron Store, Victorian Heritage...
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  • of this book". William Tipple Smith was one of the owners of the Fitzroy Iron Works at Mittagong and, during a visit in February 1849, Governor Charles...
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    used, at the Fitzroy Iron Works, to grind clay for making firebricks. The bricks were needed for repairing the many furnaces at the works. The Chilean...
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  • others. Some furnaces initially designed as cold blast—the Fitzroy Iron Works, Tamar Hematite Iron Company, and Lithgow Valley Ironworks—were soon switched...
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    any attempt was made to work the iron deposit. In 1848 land was taken up and smelting commenced at the Fitzroy Iron Works in a small blast furnace that had...
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    obtained from the Fitzroy Iron Works, the cast iron piers at Gundagai were cast by the Fitzroy Iron Works from largely local iron. The piers are therefore...
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  • prominent new shareholders that reformed the company operating the Fitzroy Iron Works at Mittagong. Zollner, Simeon [sic]. "Rookwood General Cemetery, Rookwood...
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    that the ore was superior to that of iron ore deposit at the Fitzroy Iron Works. The iron ore was described as, "Specular hematite of excellent quality"...
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    the owners of the Fitzroy Iron Works at Mittagong and, during a visit to it in late January 1849, Governor Charles Augustus FitzRoy was presented with...
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    was then owned by Enoch Hughes, who had previously worked at the Fitzroy Iron Works at Mittagong. The foundry was erected nearby after Hughes convinced...
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  • iron-smelting operation, the Fitzroy Iron Works had not been able to compete with imported iron, and there was no tariff protection of the local iron...
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  • iron-smelting operations in mainland Australia during the 1870s, the Fitzroy Iron Works, the Lal Lal Iron Company, and the Lithgow Valley Iron Works....
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    ironmaking, in Australasia during the 19th Century; iron ore had been smelted at the Fitzroy Iron Works, in a Catalan forge from 1848 to around 1852 and...
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    prominent new shareholders that reformed the company operating the Fitzroy Iron Works at Mittagong. After this venture failed, he was instrumental in interesting...
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    from the original on 9 September 2017. Retrieved 6 September 2017. "Public Works". Sydney Morning Herald. 22 July 1886. p. 3. Retrieved 30 June 2011. "Wynyard...
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    1865, shareholders of Fitzroy Iron Works voted in favour of a merger with P. N. Russell & Company. The ironworks already supplied iron to Russell's business...
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    mainland Australia during the 1870s, the Fitzroy Iron Works, the Lal Lal Iron Company, and the Lithgow Valley Iron Works. The ore deposit was the first of the...
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  • from "sixty-milers" at Sydney and then transported by rail to the Fitzroy Iron Works at Mittagong, as there was at the time no rail connection to Bulli...
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    wire netting factory, and set up a company (the Fitzroy Iron Company), leased the Fitzroy Iron Works at Mittagong in March 1886—in order to re-roll rails—and...
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  • used on the railway were notable as being rolled at the Fitzroy Iron Works, using wrought iron manufactured there from local raw materials. The railway...
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    Fitzroy Terrace is a heritage-listed residence located at 6–18 Pitt Street in the inner western Sydney suburb of Redfern in the City of Sydney local government...
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    Onehunga Ironworks (category Iron and steel mills)
    shortcomings of the blast furnace at the Fitzroy Iron Works at Mittagong, which he had erected while the works manager there in 1863–1864. However, Hughes...
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    at P. N. Russell & Co's foundry in Sydney, mainly using pig-iron from the Fitzroy Iron Works. Like the first bridge, the new one was opened by the Governor...
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  • donated a mobile camp worth $4 million to assist in flood recovery of Fitzroy Crossing, in lieu of cash payment. The search and subsequent recovery of...
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    Darwin. John Murray. p. 49 – via The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online. FitzRoy 1839, p. 42. FitzRoy 1839, p. 638. Darwin 1839 Stokes 1846, Volume...
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