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Birtley Iron Company


3919


Gateshead


Birtley, Birtley Iron Works


Birtley


NZ25NE NZ25SE


Industrial


Metal Smelting Site


Iron Works


Early Modern


C19


Documentary Evidence


Birtley Iron Works. The works were founded in the 1820s. They supplied material for the High Level Bridge. During the Second World War the Birtley Iron Company made armoured car bodies, field gun suspension and Bailey Bridges.


2708


5515


NZ27085515



<< HER 3919 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 13; George Nairn and Dorothy Rand, 1997, Images of England - Birtley, pp 98-99; The Industrial Resources of the District of the Three Northern Rivers, The Tyne, Wear and Tees including the reports on the local manufacturers read before The British Association in 1863 (edited by Sir W.G. Armstrong, I. Lowthian Bell, John Taylor and Dr Richardson, 1864).

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