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The horns from cattle were used to make things like combs and buttons. There was also a nail-making industry in Wrexham but in the mid-18th century, Wrexham was no more than a small market town with a population of perhaps 2,000. In the late 18th century Wrexham was transformed by the coming of the Industrial Revolution.
[19] [full citation needed] Glamorgan became the most populous and industrialised county in Wales and was known as the 'crucible of the Industrial Revolution'. [20] [21] [full citation needed] Other areas to house heavy industries include ironworks in Maesteg (1826), tinplate works in Llwydarth and Pontyclun and an iron ore mine in Llanharry.
Wrexham was likely founded prior to the 11th century and developed in the Middle Ages as a regional centre for trade and administration. [8] The city became the most populous settlement in Wales in the 17th century [9] [7] and was at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution from the 18th century. Prior to de-industrialisation in the 20th ...
The archives are held at County Buildings, on Regent Street, Wrexham, and run by Wrexham County Borough Council as part of its Wrexham Archives and Local Studies Service. [1] [2] The centre was initially named after local Wrexham historian Alfred Neobard Palmer. [3] The building is shared with Wrexham County Borough Museum and the archives ...
The development of iron smelting by coke made the South Wales Valleys a natural industrial location during the Industrial Revolution and, from the mid 18th century, increased demand for metals and coal was generated first by war and later by the advent of steamships and railways. [1]
During the first half of the nineteenth century mining was often at the centre of working-class discontent in Wales, and a number of uprisings such as the Merthyr Rising in 1831 against employers were a characteristic of the Industrial Revolution in Wales, Dic Penderyn became a martyr to industrial workers.
A Roberts loom in a weaving shed in the United Kingdom in 1835. The nature of the Industrial Revolution's impact on living standards in Britain is debated among historians, with Charles Feinstein identifying detrimental impacts on British workers, whilst other historians, including Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson claim the Industrial Revolution improved the living standards of British ...
The works were served by the Wrexham and Minera Branch of the Great Western Railway, later of British Railways. During its history the steelworks was involved with or supported a number of other industrial sites in the immediate area, including collieries (with the Blast Pit being located within the works itself) and a brickworks at Cae-llo ...