| Description | Featuring the reference initials 'AA/MF' and addressed to H.E.Baker Esq of Broofield House, Swinton from J.J.Habershon & Sons Limited, this letter discusses contacting Mr J.T. Higgins, Editor of the Commercial Supplement of the Sheffield Independent, previously mentioned in the letter dated 15th November 1957, Birley Stone at Birley Edge near Grenoside in 1170, Cold Rolling, Ham Bones, Mr Walkers Book being printed privately for the family, Newton Chambers Works, Hugenots, Edict of Nantes, Mr Brand of Rotherham.
In addition to this it also includes a document titled The Outline of Steel & Iron which makes reference to several pieces of history and provides page numbers, but no reference as to the source material. Key points covered are High and Low Level Bridge at Newcastle on Tyne, re-capture of Khartum, Slatin Pasha in his 'Fire and Sword in the Soudan', Bessemer Steel Rails, Samuel Walker, the Shinglers 'Eye Wire', Henry Hartopp and 'Wett-puddling' in Elsecar in 1809, John Devonshire Ellis, Atlas Works at Sheffield, Kilnhurst Works of Brown at Bragge and Ellis, Cyclops Works of C.Cammell & Co from Dronfield., blaster furnaces at Elsecar, Tinsley, the Holmes, Parkgate, Chapeltown, Worsbrough, Renishaw, Staveley and Sheepbridge, Charcoal Furnaces at Wortley, Kilnhurst and the Northfield Ironworks at Rotherham, compound armour plates, The Wilson or Ellies process, cord of wood measurement, The Lay Subsidy of 1379, Joh Stringfelo Webber, The Southwark Bridge, Wilkinson, Harvey's of Hayle, William Mushet, air hardening steel, Clyde Works of Messrs Samuel Osoborn & Sons, Sheffield Press report regarding Henry Bessemers inventions, James Nasmyth, Society of Engineers, Condie Steam Hammer, Carlise Works at Sheffield, Musgrove of Bolton, The Railway Clearing House, Private Wagon Owners, Gibsons retaining rings, drawing of a railway axel, Lancashire, Canada, U.S.A., The Staffordshire Steel and Ingot Iron Co. Ltd. of Darlaston (Bilston)., Rotherham Baths, John Cockeril of Seraing, Basic Besemer. |