A Family History of the Illustrious, Notorious and Eccentric Lloyds of Birmingham, Brigstock and Pipewell Hall - Flipbook - Page 24
m like ironstone. He suddenly remembered the lecture which had been given by the famous Mr
well some thirty years earlier, so he jumped out of the train, and extracted, pinched, purloined, stole,
atever you may call it, a piece of iron ore from the seam and put it in his pocket. He went home and
analysed, it contained over 32% of iron ore, so he immediately purchased a bit of land and then took
ase the Cardigan and Winchilsea Estates. That is what started the whole of the huge enterprise at
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03 Stewarts & Lloyds came in to existence on the merger of Stewarts & Menzies of Glasgow and
s & Lloyds of Birmingham. On 27 February 1910 the first two blast furnaces came into operation,
dentally the date of the birth of David Lloyd in Brigstock. The onset of the First World War saw a
crease in iron production and a third furnace was built in 1917. In 1933, as a direct consequence of
erger with a Scottish firm, many families from Glasgow came south and settled in Northamptonshire
the Corby nickname of "Little Scotland". Stewarts & Lloyds continued to manufacture steel up until
967 when the steel industry was nationalised. Steel production in Corby finally came to a close in
mber 1980.
