Kidwelly Industrial Museum

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Kidwelly Industrial Museum
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Former tinplate works with preserved steam engine and a colliery headgear and winding engine
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Location within Carmarthenshire
Location Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Coordinates 51°44′48″N4°17′19″W / 51.7467°N 4.2887°W / 51.7467; -4.2887
Type Industry museum
Website Kidwelly Industrial Museum

The Kidwelly Industrial Museum focuses on the tinplate industry in Kidwelly, as well as area coal mining and brick making. The museum is located near the town of Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, West Wales, on the site of the former Kidwelly Tinplate Works. The tinplate works was originally established in 1737 and was closed in 1941.

Tinplate consists of sheets of steel, coated with a thin layer of tin. Before the advent of cheap mild steel the backing metal was iron. While once more widely used, the primary use of tinplate now is the manufacture of tin cans.

Coal mining Process of getting coal out of the ground

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content, and, since the 1880s, has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from iron ore and for cement production. In the United Kingdom and South Africa, a coal mine and its structures are a colliery, a coal mine a pit, and the above-ground structures the pit head. In Australia, "colliery" generally refers to an underground coal mine. In the United States, "colliery" has been used to describe a coal mine operation but nowadays the word is not commonly used.

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A brick is building material used to make walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction. Traditionally, the term brick referred to a unit composed of clay, but it is now used to denote any rectangular units laid in mortar. A brick can be composed of clay-bearing soil, sand, and lime, or concrete materials. Bricks are produced in numerous classes, types, materials, and sizes which vary with region and time period, and are produced in bulk quantities. Two basic categories of bricks are fired and non-fired bricks.

The engine house of the tinplate works was listed as Grade II* in 1998 [1] while the works chimney, boxing room and assorting room are listed as Grade II.

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A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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References

  1. Cold-roll Engine-house at former Kidwelly Tinplate Works, Kidwelly, BritishListedBuildings.co.uk. Retrieved 21 August 2013.