page_title: William Royse Lysaght
section_title: Career as steelmaker
hierarchical_section_title: William Royse Lysaght / Career as steelmaker
caption_attribution_description: English: Site of Orb steelworks The full site of Orb steelworks occupies 74 acres. This 22 acre portion has been cleared for the creation of a housing development to be named Lysaght Village. John Lysaght of Wolverhampton established a steelworks on this site in 1898 and in its heyday it employed over 3000 people. In the background is the City Bridge https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1140452 .
context_page_description: William Royse Lysaght CBE JP was a steel manufacturer and collector of bird specimens.
context_section_description: From 1874 Lysaght worked at the Gospel Oak works in Tipton, learning to produce sheet iron. John Lysaght purchased the Swan Garden ironworks of Wolverhampton in 1878 and William then became its manager, and he also managed the Osier Bed ironworks after that was purchased in 1885.
  Over the following 10 years, William helped his uncle John plan a new sheet-rolling plant in Newport, Wales. After the death of his uncle 1895, Lysaght completed the project with the opening of the Orb Works in 1897. By 1901 Lysaght had transferred sheet metal production from Wolverhampton to Newport and went on to manage expansion of the company which employed 3000 workers by 1913. William and his brother Sydney went on to build the Normanby Park Steelworks in Scunthorpe and, when exports were interrupted by the First World War, they began construction of an Australian steelworks in Newcastle, New South Wales, which eventually opened in 1921.
  The Lysaght companies were sold to H. Seymour Berry and became part of Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds (GKN) in 1920, Lysaght becoming a director of GKN.
caption: The full site of Orb steelworks occupies 74 acres. This 22 acre portion has been cleared for the creation of a housing development to be named Lysaght Village.
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