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Carmarthenshire / Re: Carmarthen Tin Works
« on: Saturday 18 February 12 22:13 GMT (UK) »
This book by Charles Wilkins, The History of the Iron and Tinplate Trades, is available online, e.g. at http://www.archive.org/details/historyofironste00wilkrich - it will give you some intersting background though it's unlikely to name any workers, only owners and managers. Out of copyright so a legit download from archive.org. There is a museum at Kidwelly - see http://www.kidwellyindustrialmuseum.co.uk/ - which is on the site of a tinworks; its website is worth a visit even if Kidwelly is too far for you. We enjoyed our visit there a few years ago (before I discovered that remoter members of my family were involved in the industry).