The ironworks of W. Barrows and Sons, Tipton. Canals were of crucial importance in the development of Black Country industry.
English: Identifier: griffithsguideto00grif (find matches) Title: Griffiths' Guide to the iron trade of Great Britain ... an elaborate review of the iron (and) coal trades for last year, addresses and names of all ironmasters, with a list of blast furnaces, iron manufactories, and other statistics and information respecting iron and coal .. Year: 1873 (1870s) Authors: Griffiths, Samuel, editor of "The London Iron Trade Exchange" Subjects: Coal trade Iron industry and trade Publisher: London, Published for the Proprietor Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: t sulphurless thick coal, for puddlingand mill furnaces. Nothing but bull-dog is used forfetthng. Fifthly, the management, under the supervi-sion of Mr. Fisher Smith, is perfect, Mr. WilliamCasson, Mr. Smiths able and talented deputy, beingalways present at the works. Under all these circumstances, the Earl of DudleysIron takes its proper position in the market, which withBloomfield B.B.H., is the top of all Staffordshire makes,and will relatively, though perhaps gradually, continueto ascend in value, while the present favom-able circum-stances continue to facihtate the desirable results aimedat by the astute and able management which hasalways directed these works. It would be impossible to write a chapter on Stafford-shire without referring to a few of those old Ironmasters,called the leading houses; those above mentioned allbelong to this class. There are numerous other makers,whose brands of Iron stand high in the market; itwould be impossible for us to notice all of them in these Text Appearing After Image: W. BARROWS & SONS BLOOMFIELD IRON WORKS, TIPTON, STAFFORDSHIRE. THE STAFFORDSHIRE IROX TRADE. 63 pages. Our report of the quality of those men-tioned may be impHcitly rehed upon, and ^^^th a noticeof the last, and the most important of them all, wemust close these sketches, referring our readers to thegeneral hst, which contains the name and particulars ofall those works embodied in the furnaces, mills, andforges of the Black Country. W. Barrows and Sons, pro-prietors of the Bloomfield, Factory,^ and Tipton, IronWorks, have one hundred puddhng fiurnaces, quite thelargest number of any iron works in South Staf-fordshire, and produce 1,000 tons of finished Iron perweek. The brand is B.B.H., taken after the names ofthe originators of the firm, Bradley, Barrows and Hall,and is known and appreciated, not only in this countiyand the Colonies ; but its world-wide fame has causedit to be eagerly sought after in all parts of the world,being preferred in Austraha and other Colonies beforeal Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.