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	Madeley: Education \| British History Online
		In 1818 two of the four Sunday schools evidently met in the Madeley Wood and Coalport Wesleyan chapels, though they were carried on by the parish Sunday school society which, in 1814, built a room in the churchyard for Madeley Sunday school.
		Madeley Wood Methodist (formerly Wesleyan) School originated in the day school planned by Fletcher for his first meeting house and the Sunday school which he later established there.
		Madeley Parochial Infant School, founded in 1829, was held in the Sunday school room in the churchyard until 1844 when it moved to the ground floor of the new National school.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=18074 (3449 words)

	Children in Mines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		John Anstice, of the Madeley Wood Company, are from six in the morning to six in the evening.
		William Tranter, of the Coalbrook Dale Company, gives evidence to the same effect and it is confirmed by all the witnesses, the young men and boys working in the pits, who have been examined.
		The company finds the drawing power, that is the steam engine and its accompanying apparatus, the engine-man, the machine-man at the mouth of the shaft and also the railway down in the mine.
	shropshiremines.org.uk /bmd/children.htm (14685 words)

	text routes
		Madeley Court (13) mainly 16th Century with traces of 13th Century fabric, was built as a grange for Wenlock Priory.
		In 1832 The Madeley Wood Company moved its ironmaking operation from Bedlam Furnaces near Ironbridge to Blists Hill (4) on the banks of the Shropshire Canal (6).
		Madeley Parish Council is a partner in STROWP, a project set up to define and improve access for rights of way throughout five parishes in the south of Telford.
	www.madeleyparishcouncil.gov.uk /text_routes.htm (1346 words)

	COALBROOKDALE COALFIELD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This was apparently considered a problem from an early date for a proclamation was issued in 1308 prohibiting the use of coal as a fuel, to safeguard the interests of the timber growers.
		The last two companies were multi-industrial based and, during the 19th century, the Madeley Wood Company became the major concern in the southern half of the coalfield and the Lilleshall Company in the northern part.
		The two major companies were the Lilleshall Company in the north and the Madeley Wood Company in the south-east.
	shropshiremines.org.uk /bmd/coalbrcf.htm (3926 words)

	Madeley Wood (Mining) Company - The Meadow Colliery, the history of mining in Coalbrookdale, Telford, Shropshire
		Madeley Wood (Mining) Company - The Meadow Colliery, the history of mining in Coalbrookdale, Telford, Shropshire
		Meadow Pit was owned and operated in the 1700, 1800 & 1900's, by The Madeley Wood (Mining) Company a major employer in the district and main suppliers of coal to The Coalbrookedale Company, famed for their casting of the world famous IRONBRIDGE in 1779.
		The Meadow Pit site at Ironbridge Road Madeley, has evolved into a pleasant tree lined domain and the gardens are at it's entry.
	www.shropshiremining.org.uk /madeley_wood.shtml (146 words)

	Shropshire, 1910 - "What the Papers Said" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Revell Phillips (Shifnal) represented the Madeley Wood Company, the owners of the colliery, and Mr.
		The drum round which the rope was wound was 15 feet in diameter, and was of wood.
		After the Coroner had summed up the evidence, the jury retired, and after an absence of twenty minutes, returned a verdict of "Accidental death" They also called attention to the fact that the engine-driver, the banksman, and the stoker did not seem to be conversant with the special rules relating to their respective duties.
	www.serve.com /scmc/papers/1910_12_17_kemberton_disaster.html (2790 words)

	A Community Archive for Madeley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		On the 27th September 1864 nine miners ascending the Madeley Wood Company's Brick Kiln Leasow Crawthorne Pit (known locally as the Lane Pit) fell to their deaths.
		This tragic tale is an engaging piece of social history, which has captured the imagination of many local historians and school groups.
		However, the condition of the tomb has deteriorated to a point where the inscrition is almost illegible and the vegetation has covered the graves and undermined the brickwork.
	www.livinghist.madeley.org.uk /miners.htm (354 words)

	buildings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Their interests in local mines and ironworks were extensive, owning the Madeley Wood Company.
		The Anstices inherited The Madeley Wood Ironworks and several other enterprises from the great William Reynolds, who was a cousin of William Anstice.
		The Bedlam Furnaces at Madeley Wood were moved to the Blists Hill Works beside the Shropshire Canal in 1832 to make the company more profitable.
	www.madeley.org.uk /buildings.htm (357 words)

	Shropshire, 1910 - "What the Papers Said" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A gloom was cast over the town of Madeley when it became known that a shocking disaster had occurred at the Kemberton Colliery, the property of the Madeley Wood Colliery Company, on Sunday night, whereby seven lives were lost.
		The other pits owned by the Madeley Wood Colliery Company were closed fur the day on Monday; and political meetings arranged to he held in the district were cancelled by Captain Forester.
		Cock's) residence, and a procession of the whole of the Madeley Wood "Field", numbering 1,000, with tradesmen and others, pathetically wended their way to the old church, the line of the route being crowded with the inhabitants of the district.
	www.serve.com /scmc/papers/1910_12_10_pit_cage_disaster.html (1306 words)

	Madeley Matters September 2004 page 4
		Madeley Cricket Club has been celebrating 150 years of cricketing success and a ‘Cricket Week’ was held from 25th – 30th July 2004 to mark this very special anniversary.
		A fascinating booklet (price £4) is also available telling the story of the club from its early years in the mid 1850s to the present day and including lots of anecdotes about the many fascinating characters who have been associated with the club over the years.
		On 30th June 1925 the ground was purchased from the Madeley Wood Company for the princely sum of £200 providing the club with a very useful financial asset.
	www.matters.madeley.org.uk /matts0410/page4.html (574 words)

	Children in Mines: Ages
		Wood made a brief investigation, Children begin to work in the Mines at the same early ages as in the Barnsley and Wakefield district.
		Richard Wood, general manager of the British Iron Company's coal and iron works, " He has been long used to lame works, and the management of men and children working together in numbers in iron and coal works.
		Nasmyth, the agent, told me they did not employ Children,that they were of no use; they required strong able lads of seventeen or eighteen years old to do their work, of whom about 30 were employed.
	www.mininginstitute.org.uk /papers/CEC_Ages.html (10597 words)

	Madeley: Communications \| British History Online
		The building of the Iron Bridge 1777-80 caused the Madeley turnpike trustees to provide a route to it from near the top of Lincoln Hill, first by improvement of an existing lane (the later Ironbridge High Street) then by a sharp turn uphill into a 'new road' (the later Church Hill).
		Central Madeley was bypassed to the north by Parkway (built 1967-8) and to the east by a link road (opened 1979) from Madeley roundabout to Coalport Road at Blists Hill.
		Further north tramways were built from Madeley Court pits and ironworks to the Tweedale basin near the bottom of the Windmill farm incline, and from the Hales pits.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=18065 (2309 words)

	Anstice/Madeley Wood Auction page 5
		The Anstice family have been connected with the Town of Madeley for more than 100 years, and this Sale follows the disposal of other long standing interests in the District and provides opportunities both for occupation and investment.
		The Farms are at once remarkable for the excellence of the Land and for their good condition, and if additions in the way of Land or Cottages are deemed advisable, the Sale affords either subject.
		The Madeley Wood Company having decided to sell their Properties, it has been possible to arrange between the two Vendors that Lots 2 and 4 shall be sold with Lots 18 and 19 respectively, which will be highly advantageous to Purchasers.
	www.localhistory.madeley.org.uk /buildings/anstice/anauct5.html (658 words)

	Madeley_(shropshire) info here at pinkjustis.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Madeley is a small town, now part of the new town of Telford in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and ceremonial county of Shropshire, England.
		Ironbridge was once part of Madeley, but is now in the separate parish of The Gorge.
		Madeley Parish Council has information about local history, events, etc. and publishes the Madeley Matters Magazine.
	pinkjustis.info /Special:Allpages/Madeley_(Shropshire) (346 words)

	Fletcher of Madeley
		Mary Matthews, of Madeley Wood, went to hear him with the mind of the Pharisee, but she left his presence with the heart of the publican.
		Fletcher, all unsuspectingly, prepared for his walk to the wood, but on the threshold was met by a messenger who had forgotten to give notice of the burial of a child who was even then being carried up for its funeral.
		Madeley yearned for its now beloved Vicar, and thinking that all would be well if he were only once more in their midst, one of his parishioners brought a horse, designing to walk by him all the way from Bristol to Madeley.
	www.pos1.info /f/fltch.htm (19922 words)

	Category:Defunct companies of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Defunct_companies_of_the_United_Kingdom (91 words)

	Shrewsbury Cronicle
		Salmon are more numerous in the Severn this season than they have been for many years owing, it is said, to some alterations made in the weirs favourable to the upward progress of the fish.
		On Saturday, New Year’s Eve, an excellent dinner was given to the older servants in the department of the Coalport Company’s works known as the Coalport Bridge Inn, by W.F. Rose Esq.
		The dinner consisted of the usual Christmas fare, goose, roast beef, mutton, plum pudding etc. and was admirably served by Mr and the Misses Roden, tenants of Mr Rose.
	www.igca.co.uk /shrewsbury_cronicle.htm (1156 words)

	Sales
		This volume concerns the Madeley Wood Company's mines on Madeley Hill and the mines of the Madeley Court Company.
		Maw and Company: A brief history of this long established decorative tile manufacturer, with descriptions and illustrations of their factories at Benthall and Jackfield.
		Memories and anecdotes of life in Broseley, Jackfield, Coalport and Madeley from the turn of the 20th century.
	www.dewhirst.ndirect.co.uk /sales.htm (391 words)

	Sheinton Heritage \| The Gleedon Hill Waggon-way (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In the 19th century part of this area of Wenlock Edge was within the Moseley estate centred upon Buildwas Park.
		In a deed of 1824 William Moseley assigned quarries to the partners of the Madeley Wood Co as follows:
		The deed also gave permission for burning limestone for agricultural purposes, this was not for general sale but for the use of George Reynolds who held Whitwell Farm.
	www.sheinton.org.uk /features/the-gleedon-hill-waggonwa.shtml (504 words)

	Ironbridge Gorge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A sequence of reports was produced throughout the repair work, but one of the first final reports to be compiled was that on Bedlam Furnaces, a group of iron furnaces on the riverside, made famous by their depiction by P J de Loutherburg in one of the best known images of the industrial revolution.
		Begun in 1757 by the Madeley Wood Company, the coke-fired furnaces provided cast iron.
		The archaeological analysis of the furnaces in conjunction with a reappraisal of the documentary evidence has shown that many of the previous assumptions about the blowing of the furnaces were wrong, and has put forward important new hypotheses about the later use of the site.
	www.eng-h.gov.uk /archrev/rev95_6/ironbrdg.htm (246 words)

	Anstice/Madeley Wood Auction page 1
		The summary of the catalogue lists a total of 66 lots, the first 17 being sold by the trustees of John Anstice and the remainder by the Madeley Wood Company.
		The text that follows is an exact copy of the original auction catalogue, hence the somewhat archaic punctuation, capitalisation and, in some cases, spelling.
		This property is situated near Madeley Market Station and the Town and would make a valuable addition to either of the Holdings in the vicinity, or with Lot 19, would form a capital Small Holding.
	www.localhistory.madeley.org.uk /buildings/anstice/anauct.html (1675 words)

	text miners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		However, the condition of the tomb had deteriorated to a point where the inscrition was almost illegible and vegetation had covered the graves and undermined the brickwork.
		Funding was provided by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Madeley Parish Council to restore the monument.
		Restoration was completed, an interpretation plaque put up and a service of rededication held in October 2003.
	www.madeley.org.uk /text_nine_men.htm (350 words)

	Fletcher of Madeley
		Mary Barnard, a lame old women of ninety, counted no pain or distance too great to prevent her from making her toilsome journey to the church where she “first saw the light,” and, uneducated as she was, her definite testimony to the power of the cleansing Blood often cheered the preacher who had blessed her.
		A continental journey by post-chaise in December was not unlikely to prove trying, but though the axle-tree broke, and they were left on the side of a snow-covered hill with nine miles to walk in the piercing cold of a north wind, Mr.
		Last Sunday I met them in the wood; there were a hundred of them, and as many adults Our first pastor has since desired me to desist from preaching in the wood...
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext04/fltch10h.htm (7380 words)

	Bedlam Furnaces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Madeley Wood Company built the furnaces in 1757.
		The original name was Madeley Wood Furnaces but newspapers of the day changed this to Bedlam (meaning madhouse: scenes of uproar) because the furnaces appeared to be scenes of horror with heaps of burning ironstone and smouldering coke.
		Bedlam Furnaces were thought to have been used to cast components for the Ironbridge because they were close to the bridge site.
	users.northnet.com.au /~yallaroo/Yallaroo/Bedlam_furnaces.htm (162 words)

	Bridge Company Iron Wine
		If you've driven down Route 108 near Centennial Road recently, you may have noticed that a local landmark is undergoing a major renovation.
		In its place will be the Iron Bridge Wine Company, a new cafÅ½, wine bar and coffee house...
		Lin proves the opposite with a company of soldiers as guinea pigs and Kuan has a change...
	www.bar-at-home.com /14/bridge-company-iron-wine.html (583 words)

	A Yank's Return to England - Part 4
		Excavations have unearthed burnt wood, iron, teeth, bones, and traces of paved flooring.
		The date of 1475 represents the first stone building on the site, 1695 signifies when much of the brickwork replaced the original stone while 1860 signifies when further extensions were built together with the present garden wall.
		In 1709, the original Coalbrookdale Company was formed by the great iron master, Abraham Darby.
	www.oldengine.org /members/arnie/yank2001/yank4.htm (2197 words)

	Secret Shropshire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Nine miners were killed at the Brick Kiln Leasow pit in Madeley.
		The miners were buried at Madeley Church in a single grave below by a cast-iron slab.On the day of the funeral all the works owned by the Madeley Wood Company, who also owned the Brick Kiln Leasow pit closed early.
		The Madeley Living History Project has recently received a Heritage Lottery Fund grant to restore the grave and promote greater awareness of it.
	www.secretshropshire.org.uk /Content/Learn/Mining/DeathDisaster.asp (271 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Blists Hill
		It is one museum of ten operated by the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust.
		Originally the site was purely industrial, consisting of a brick and tile works, blast furnaces operated by the Madeley Wood Company, and a short section of the Shropshire Union Canal, running from the site to the Hay Inclined Plane, which transported boats up and down the 207 ft. high incline from Blists Hill to Coalport.
		The museum consists of buildings which fall into one of three catagories.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Blists_Hill (346 words)

	Subscribes to - The Miners Guide
		Subscribes to - The Miners Guide of the principal mines of coal and ironstone in the counties of Stafford, Salop, Warwick and Durham by Thomas Smith, mine and land agent Sandy-Fields, nr Sedgley.
		Published and sold by Radclyffe and Company, 3 Peck Lane, Bimingham in 1836 Bryan SLIM Vancouver, BC Canada Surname Names Occupation Locality Attwood T. Halesowen House Attwood Thomas M.P. Birmingham Badger 'I'homas Dudley Bagnall Messrs.
		West Bromwich Woodcock Charles Shut End York J. Horseley Iron Works Lord Ward, Himley Hall Earl of Dartmouth Sandwell Lord Hatherton near Stafford Sir Horace St. Paul The Madeley Wood Company, Madeley Wood The Coalbrook Dale Company, Coalbrook Dale Messrs.Lloyds, Foster, and Co. Wednesbury Old Park Messrs.
	www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/eng/WAR/deloyd/Minersguide.html (480 words)

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