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View of the grade II listed 17th century waterwheel and helve -hammer located at Kirkstall Forge. A Slitting Mill was built here c1676 and began to produced iron for the Yorkshire towns of Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, York, Hull and Halifax. The market for iron also ranged further afield to Rochdale in Lancashire, Newcastle and London. Between 1704 sales averaged at ?2,400 per year yielding a profit of about ?187. Most of the iron worked at Kirkstall Forge came from the Spencer Combine, an important group of furnaces and forges in South Yorkshire run by the Spencers of Cannon Hall near Barnsley. Cast iron was also sourced at Hull after its arrival from Holland. Pig iron was shipped in from America. The War of the Spanish succession ended in 1712 and Kirkstall Forge took advantage of tons of scrap iron in the form of bullets that also arrived via Hull. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | listed waterwheel Kirkstall Forge | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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