Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• I. History of the Iron, Steel and Tinplate Trades
• II. Aberdare in Old Days
• III. The Beginning of Dowlais. The Acorn is put into the Ground!. Entry upon the Scene of Lewis of teh ?Van and the First Guest.
• IV. The First Guest in his Exile at Dowlais. Reminiscences of his Early Days in Wales.
• V. Anthony Bacon and the Beginning of Cyfarthfa. The First Furnace. John Wesley at Merthyr.
• VI. The Homfrays of Penydarren. The Voyage to Cardiff.
• VII. The Crawshay Family. A Race of Iron Kings. The First Entry into Wales. Origin and Career of Richard Crawshay
• VIII. Favourite Poem of Richard Crawshay. The Baileys, Sir |Joseph and Crawshay Bailey. The Shoeless Lad Becomes Baronet
• IX. William Crawshay, The Iron King.
• X. The Riots at Merthyr Tydfil in 1831.
• XI. Sir John Josiah Guest, M.P., The Iron King. Elections of 1835 and 1895 Contrasted.
• XII. Sir John Josiah Guest, Bart. The Tale of a Great Life and its End.
• XIII. The Homfrays, Formans, and Alderman Thompson, of Penydarren. Notable Adventures: The Charge of the "Bwch Gafr O Gethin." The Iron Horse.
• XIV. Sir John J. Guest. Anecdotes of his Career and of the First Organised Strike of 1810. Lady Charlotte and the "Mabinogion"
• XV. Penydarren Works. Trevethick and his Locomotive. Great Wager Between Homfray and Richard Crawshay. Social Times at Cardiff in 1800.
• XVI. The Eminent Men of Penydarren. Career of the Formans, Homfrays, and Alderman Thompson.
• XVII. The Plymouth Ironworks and the Hill Family. The Lewis Family.
• XVIII. Plymouth Works. Closing Years of Anthony Hill's Life. Notices of Old Plymouth Men.
• XIX. Abernant Works. The Tappingtons, Homfrays, and Birch. The Fothergills.
• XX. Mr Richard Fothergill as M.P. for Merthyr Tydfil.
• XXI. Tredegar.
• XXII. The Rhymney Works.
• XXIII. Ebbw Vale.
• XXIV. Blaenavon Ironworks.
• XXV. Beaufort Iron Works.
• XXVII. The Chain and Anchor Works at Pontypridd.
• XXVIII. Melingriffith and Pentyrch.
• XXIX. The Leading Men of Early Iron Days.
• XXX. Men of the Iron Age.
• XXXI. Dowlais after the Death of Sir John J. Guest. William Menelaus.
• XXXII. Cyfarthfa after the Death of William Crawshay.
• XXXIII. Tinplate. The Puritan Soldier Pioneer.
• XXXIV. Aberavon and District.
• XXXV. The Llynvi Valley. The Maid of Cefn Ydfa.
• XXXVI. Maesteg Works and Neighbourhood. The Brogdens.
• XXXVII. Neath. A Glance at Past History.
• XXXVIII. Briton Ferry.
• XXXIX. Landore.
• XL. Swansea.
• XLI. Carmarthenshire Iron Works and Mr. Raby.
• XLII. Sir John Jones Jenkins.
• XLIII. Visit to a Morriston Works.
• XLIV. Llanelly and its Note-worthy Men.
• XLV. Cardiganshire Tinplate Works
• XLVI. Bessemer and Siemens.
• XLVII. Dates of Interest in Connection with the Tinplate Industry in Glamorganshire and Carmarthenshire.
• XLVIII. Wales the Teacher.
• XLIX. The Social Life of our Workers. Music, Song, and Devotion.
• L. Old, and Also Extinct Iron Works.