Lydbrook Tin Works (General)
by kthatch, Thursday, October 01, 2009, 16:30 (5561 days ago)
I would like to find out the location of the Lydbrook Tin Works. I read that it was located where Meredith & Sons and Lydwood works are today. Does anyone know where in Lydbrook they are located; is there an address or instructions on how to get there?
Thank you!
Lydbrook Tin Works
by shepway , Thursday, October 01, 2009, 18:15 (5560 days ago) @ kthatch
On opposite side of road to Baptist Chapel and up a bit!!!
Go to http://www.old-maps.co.uk/indexmappage2.aspx
Insert the following co-ordinates 359700, 216300 and zoom in.
or go to Google Maps http://maps.google.co.uk/ and search on postcode GL17 9NA
For an impression of Lower Lydbrook in earlier days do a web search for "Summer in the Forest" by Eric Bottomley. Limited Edition prints are available from a number of sources.
Mike
Lydbrook Tin Works
by ForestPrints , Yorkley, Forest of Dean, UK, Friday, October 02, 2009, 09:31 (5560 days ago) @ shepway
You can find a picture of the Tin Works at http://www.forestprints.co.uk/lydbrook_tin_works.htm
Lydbrook Tin Works
by Judith Webb , Herefordshire, Thursday, July 21, 2011, 16:05 (4903 days ago) @ kthatch
Cyril Hart's Book on The Industrial History of Dean, has a map which locates the Tin Plate Works at the current Lydwood site. This is below the Anchor Inn. He also shows a Forge, and a later rolling mill and part of the tinplate works slighly above this, closer to the Anchor. At the now derelict site opposite to the Chapel, and above the Anchor, he has Russell's Wire Works. The old S & W railway line runs along behind all of the sites.
Lydbrook Tin Plate Works History
by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Saturday, September 01, 2012, 15:44 (4495 days ago) @ Judith Webb
I have included some references to the history of the Lydbrook TinPlate works in this newer thread which I hope are of interest.
http://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=38178
Also please see this detailed history of the works c/o the Glostershire Society for Industrial Archaeology http://www.gsia.org.uk/reprints/2004/gi200419.pdf
1912 workers photo http://www.forest-of-dean.net/gallery/lydbrook/pages/page_56.html
1919 workers photo http://www.forest-of-dean.net/gallery/lydbrook/pages/page_3.html
For Richard Thomas, the works owner from 1871, see
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=aet-t&id=I10
And this timeline http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Richard_Thomas_and_Co
and despite the website address this is a general history of Lydbrook village.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worrall_Hill