A Family History of the Illustrious, Notorious and Eccentric Lloyds of Birmingham, Brigstock and Pipewell Hall - Flipbook - Page 18
THE LLOYDS AND IRON - FAMOUS IRONMASTERS
dest brother, Charles Lloyd, established an iron-work near Dolobran Hall in 1719. Some of the
ad to be carted as far as South Staffordshire to make a sale. The venture probably started when
as at a high price, but it became unprofitable, and he was involved in monetary difficulties.
ually he moved to Birmingham in 1742 and died in 1749.
son Lloyd I moved to Birmingham, aged thirty-four in the year his father died (1698). He soon
d business as an iron merchant in Edgbaston Street. Sampson Lloyd, and his son, the second
son Lloyd erected a slitting mill at the bottom of Bradford Street, the motive power for which was
ed from the river Rea. A slitting mill is used to prepare iron for making nails. At that time there
wenty thousand Smiths or Naylors dwelling near these parts, the nails being sent to all parts of the
ry and exported. Sampson Lloyd I, after a profitable career as an ironmaster in the firm of
pson Lloyd and Sons" died in 1724, aged, like his father, sixty.
son Lloyd II and his sons were engaged in the manufacture of iron, and in 1755, visitors from
on went to see an iron furnace at a small distance from Birmingham (at Hamstead near Perry Barr
river Tame) where the iron ore is smelted and run into trenches in the shape of the pigs of iron.
of the iron smelted at the furnace at Hamstead would no doubt be purchased by the Lloyds for
harcoal forges at Burton-on-Trent and Powick. The Powick works were under the management of
miah Lloyd, the eldest son of Sampson Lloyd II, who died unmarried.
loyds, and others in the trade were evidently able to command a high price for their iron, when in
an advertisement appeared, headed,
