Aberdulais, South Wales
N 51° 40.807 W 003° 46.645
30U E 446250 N 5725746
Aberdulais Tin Works (In industrial history)
Waymark Code: WMFB6A
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/23/2012
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From Wikipedia :-
Aberdulais has been the heart of many businesses for a number of years. The first business there was a copper smelting industry; that failed because it received only sporadic copper delivered via boat from Cornwall. The site was then chosen again by an ironworks forge. This, too, failed, but not much is known, so nobody knows why. It was chosen twice to be the site for an ironworks. Between the works, Aberdulais was used as a corn watermill; that failed because it was too small scale, and the high price of corn at the time of the Corn Laws. It was then used as a tinplate site; that failed because tinplate was made redundant after the Bessemer Process.
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