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Topic: Edge's Chain works at Shifnal (Read 199 times)
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sjsbc
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Hi,
Not sure if this is the right chain works, I quote..
At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries William Horton and Benjamin Edge opened chain manufactories at Coalport. Edge, apparently a Norfolk Quaker, established his in William Reynolds's former rope factory, which his father may have managed. There was a good trade with local colliery firms, and Gilbert Gilpin of Dawley took over Horton's factory. About 1819, however, Gilpin established a new chain works at Aqueduct. His executors were running it in 1827, and in the early 1850s it survived as Charles Clayton's foundry, producing rollers, hurdles, and gates: later it seems to have been a nail factory. The Edges took Gilpin's Coalport works and were still making chains in Coalport in 1863. (Footnote 29) By 1870 they had moved and had chain, wire rope, and engineering works at the canalside Madeley foundry and at Upton (in Shifnal). (Footnote 30) The firm concentrated in Shifnal c. 1880 leaving chain making in Madeley to William Walton, (Footnote 31) also a general smith. (Footnote 32) Walton finished soon after 1905, (Footnote 33) his works near the canal bridge being taken by G. J. Muirhead Ltd., bankrupt by 1910. (Footnote 34)
From: 'Madeley: Economic history', A History of the County of Shropshire: Volume XI: Telford (1985), pp. 40-56.
URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=18069.
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SCOTLAND: Scotland, Morrison, Bonnella, Third,
LINCOLNSHIRE: Bell, King, Emerson, Leesing, Canty, Cutting, Fox,
GLOUCESTERSHIRE: Antill, Onslow, Crook, Jenkins,
LANCASHIRE: Hall, Mayson, Dearden,
WILTSHIRE: Sloper, King, Willis, Stockwell,
ESSEX: Stone, Webb, Smith, Hawkins, Frye,
SOMERSET: Harrison, Jones,
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sjsbc
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Hi,
also found an entry for the coalport works in the Federated Institution of Mining Engineers
Transactions Volume XIII, 1896-1897
Edge, J. H., Coalport Wire Hope and Chain Works, Shifnal, Salop.
http://www.dmm-gallery.org.uk/transime/u13-m.htm
so I guess that ties in with my previous reply, it was the Coalport reference that was putting me off.
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SCOTLAND: Scotland, Morrison, Bonnella, Third,
LINCOLNSHIRE: Bell, King, Emerson, Leesing, Canty, Cutting, Fox,
GLOUCESTERSHIRE: Antill, Onslow, Crook, Jenkins,
LANCASHIRE: Hall, Mayson, Dearden,
WILTSHIRE: Sloper, King, Willis, Stockwell,
ESSEX: Stone, Webb, Smith, Hawkins, Frye,
SOMERSET: Harrison, Jones,
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