Dudley lies on an elevated ridge, in the midst of the district of the midlands known as the Black Country, which is given up to ironworks and coal mines.
It has extensive coal mines and ironworks and produces fire-proof bricks.
There are ironworks and manufactures of hosiery, carpets and mustard in the city.
Between this and Dudley lie the great ironworks of Roundoak, and the extensive suburb of Netherton in the enclaved portion of Worcestershire.
Descend, and between the ironworks and coalpits the ground is unsightly with refuse heaps, while its frequent inequalities, and the bending, tottering buildings, show it to be honeycombed with mines.
On the right, in the foreground, we may notice a heap of charcoal intended to be placed in the furnace in order to reduce the ore; on the left, there is the store of ore called in the ironworks the ore-pen.
The great ironworks adorn it like a row of precious stones, and its buckle is a whole city with castles and cathedrals and great clusters of houses.
There are collieries, ironworks and tinplate works in the district; the town, which lies in the middle portion of the Ebbw valley, being situated on the south-eastern flank of the great mining region of Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire.
It lies in the mountainous mining district of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, in the valley of the Ebbw Fach, and the large industrial population is mainly employed in the numerous coalmines, ironworks and tinplate works.
He therefore determined to give up his shares in the ironworks at Ketley to his sons William and Joseph, who continued to carry them on.
Again in 1639, leaving his ironworks and partners, he accompanied Charles on his expedition across the Scotch border, and was present with the army until its discomfiture at Newburn near Newcastle in the following year.
There were several ironworks in the neighbour hood, and thither he went in search of employment.
Most of the Welsh ironworks were razed to the ground about the same time, and were not again rebuilt.
The future management of his extensive ironworks being thus placed in able hands, Richard Reynolds finally left Coalbrookdale in 1804, for Bristol, his native town, where he spent the remainder of his life in works of charity and mercy.
As a large employer of labour, he was much respected by all his workpeople, and a cordial feeling always existed between the head of the firm and the numerous employes both in the ironworks and collieries.
No sooner was it known that there was rioting in Dudley than the largest coal and ironworks on the Stourbridge side poured forth an army of miners; men to whom to see the light of day was itself almost an excitement.
In 1856, the Lugar and the Muirkirk Ironworks came into the market, and the Messrs.
The father of the proprietors of Gartsherrie Ironworks was tenant of Kirkwood, Newmains, and High Cross farms.
Later, there were ironworks in Tredegar Park, carried on by Sir William Morgan.
When the ironworks were started here they received the name of Tredegar, and the town itself was also called Tredegar.
In return he told her he had been at the ironworks all day, only leaving them in time to dress for dinner, a piece of news she received with a still countenance, and her soft eyes fixed on the fire.
Business was the pretext, as he had money in some great ironworks there; but I think the nearness of a large city, where a man of his stamp would be able to indulge all his tastes without let or hindrance, had something to do with the change.
Quickly the number of completed ironworksin that region rose from nine to seventeen, and in the short space of three years the output of pig-iron was nearly doubled.
Finding by experience that State mines and State ironworks were a heavy drain on his insufficiently replenished treasury, he transferred some of them to private persons, and this policy was followed occasionally by his successors.
He is referred to in our account of the old ironworks of Loch Maree, and some passages of his life are given in Appendix A.
The following descriptions will include all the remains of ironworks so far noticed within the parish of Gairloch, whether belonging to what we have called the ancient class, or to the more modern historic set.
In the neighbourhood of all the remains of ironworks in Gairloch are found ferruginous rocks and shales, or rust-coloured earths.
His analyses and conclusions will in due time be made public; they will prove that the iron ore used at the ancient ironworks in the parish of Gairloch was undoubtedly bog iron.
The vast woods of Letterewe were undoubtedly the prime motive that led Sir George to start the ironworks there.
Their ironworks were abandoned at the end of two years, i.
These old ironworks belong to the ancient class treated of in Part I.
The remains of the ironworks at the hamlet of Furnace, a mile south-east of Letterewe, are perhaps the most generally interesting in Gairloch, as being especially identified with Sir George Hay.
Similar remains of ironworks may also be observed by the roadside near the other end of Loch Rosque.
It appears certain that there were ironworks in the following different places in Gairloch parish,-- 1.
Whether Sir George carried on ironworks elsewhere than on Loch Maree we know not, but it is most likely that they were his principal, if not his only, undertakings of the kind.
But we can carry back the history of the Letterewe ironworksto a slightly earlier date still.
The Mediterranean ironworks and yards, together with other private companies, have large workshops for the construction or repair of marine steam-engines, and for every branch of iron shipbuilding, employing several thousand workmen.
This little town, with ironworks of considerable importance, and still retaining parts of its old fortifications and castle, is situated on the Loire at its junction with the Nohain.
Nièvre, with the important ironworks called the Forges de la Chaussade, employing upwards of 1300 men.
I found them by a chink of light streaming through their door; but they gave me no hope, only advising me to go across the river and try in the new town where the forges and the ironworks were.
In the ironworks and foundries, the furnace blowing engines were worked by water wheels or by a gear attached to donkeys or horses.
He had apprenticed as a grocer and then became a partner in a large ironworksof Darby, whose daughter he married.
Ifield ironworks became extinct at an early date, but from a very arbitrary cause.
The last remaining ironworks in Sussex were situated at Ashburnham, and ceased working about 1820, owing to the inability of iron-masters to compete with the coal-smelted ore of South Wales.
The water-power required by the ironworks was obtained by embanking small streams, to form ponds; as here at Ifield, where a fine head of water is still existing.
The Clackmannan field is the northern continuation of the great Lanarkshire basin which extends northwards by Slamannan, Falkirk and the Carron Ironworks to Alloa.
The Clay Cross Colliery and Ironworks Company, whose mines were for a time leased by George Stephenson, employ a great number of hands.
After leaving this town he started the Carron Ironworks on the Clyde, and in 1768 joined James Watt in bringing out the latter's steam engine.
In 1842 he made a fortunate speculation in the purchase of some extensive ironworks at Rotherham just previous to the days of "the railway mania.
Sussex ironworks provided three thousand horseshoes and twenty-nine thousand nails for the English army in its campaign in Scotland.
This is the immense slag-heap of the ironworksat Stanton-by-Dale, impressive even to the modern beholder.
He had apprenticed as a grocer and then became a partner in a large ironworks of Darby with a man whose daughter he married.
Horrocks stood for half a minute, then turned abruptly towards the ironworks again.
He stood with his hands in his pockets, frowning down at the dim steaming railway and the busy ironworks beyond, frowning as if he were thinking out some knotty problem.
The ironworkshad grown larger and spread out with their approach.
I met with a cordial welcome, and with the hospitable request that I should take up my quarters there for the night, and have a round of the ironworks and the machinery on the following day.
The Carron Ironworks are classic ground to engineers.
Schneider, proprietor of the greatironworks at Creuzot, in France.
Being one of the largest shareholders in the Carron Ironworks near Stirling, he also devoted much of his time to the improvement of guns for the Royal Navy.
The steam hammer soon found its way into the principal ironworks of the country.
The Lowmoor Ironworks Company followed suit with an order for one of the same size and power; and another came from Hawkes and Co.
By day and by night the country is glowing with fire, and the smoke of the ironworks hovers over it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ironworks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
