Then there are the ironworks.
One statement he made was that the coal from a certain colliery in his constituency was sent to the ironworks and nobody knew at what price the coal was sold.
The private owner promptly cut down most of the trees, denuded the forest, sold for profit and closed down the ironworks which were dependent upon timber.
Pancras ironworks, a building which is considered to be the most significant unlisted building in the immediate area.
My own division, which six or seven years ago had a number of collieries and ironworks and cotton mills, has very few indeed now.
That was once a prosperous village; there were ironworks and blast furnaces there.
Closure of the ironworks does not, however, mean that the whole labour force will be thrown out of work.
It is now a large, viable privatised ironworks that had formally been languishing in the public sector.
