Ironmongery under your feet (and above them)

Local foundries and ironworks are largely gone now. They produced a wide range of items, generally marked with their name.
This page has examples of all manner of drain and manholes, builder plates and signs, gate and fence posts plus other castings with their inscriptions

Builders plates

Many iron bridges and other structures carry their makers plate, some dated, some not.

'E Finch & Co Limtd 1877'	'E Finch & Co Limtd 1887'	'E Finch & Co Limtd 1899'	'E Finch & Co Limtd 1902'
'Braithwaithe & Co Engineers Ltd'	'Joseph Adamson & Co Ltd'

Manhole Covers

Broads Foundry, Pontymister

Pontymister Ironworks

'Broads' utilities cover '7821'	'Broads' utilities cover '70B'	'Broads' utilities cover '70C'	'Broads' utilities cover '73E/D'
'Broads' utilities cover '78B'	'Broads' 'telephones' cover	'Broads' 'PO' cover	'Broads London Ner Roc' cover '38A'
'Broad & Co London' cover '42A'	'Broads 129B'

C to Z

'W A Baker & Co Ld Newport Mon'	'Glyn Eng Works Pontypool'	'GWR sewer'	'Howell & Son Aberayron'
'HW & Co PM'	'Lawrence & Co Taffs Well'	'Pontypool Foundry & Eng Co Ld'	'R T & B Stormwater', Ebbw Vale
'RUDC Sewer'	'Sandbrook & Dawe Ltd'	'T Spittle Ld Newport Mon'	'Victoria Foundry Ebbw Vale'
'Henry Ward Williams'	'Henry Ward Williams 1913'	'P T Woodruff Machen Foundry'

Stop Cocks and valves

'Jones Gas Patent' inspecton cover

'SEBWB Water' inspecton cover

'Thames Water'

Miscellaneous

Railway and Canal Signs

B & A Canal mileage marker '35'	Cork and Bandon Railway sign	GWR bridge restriction plate	LMSR sign at Govilon
LMSR sign at Govilon	LNWR sign at Govilon	LNWR sign at Llanfoist	LYR sign at Abertwsswg

Other Things

Gatepost at Gilwern Station	Gatepost at Cefn Ila	Cast-iron stove at Cefn Ila	'Alexandra Roller' at Cefn Ila
'Cables' at Trinant, Monmouthshire

Acknowledgments, sources and further reading.

Thanks for the use of their photos to :- Martyn Davies, Diana Harris, Risca Museum, Robin Williams