He chose to fund the ironworks for general development rather than the arsenal for military arms.
He was employed there first as an unskilled construction worker and, later, as a semi-skilled worker in the ironworks.
I understand very well the concern felt locally at the news of the likely closure of the ironworks.
I am connected with the largest industrial ironworks and colliery works in the country, employing over 50,000 men.
The ironworks and the steel works belong to different companies.
Their policy was of great service also to the shipyards and ironworks of this country.
We have consequently got large areas of ungotten minerals which are being kept for the time required for the carrying on of the ironworks concerned.
It is now a large, viable privatised ironworks that had formally been languishing in the public sector.
