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  • Cradley Heath firm Genwork First Mesh Limited supplied mesh panels for the roofline structure of the 02 Dome Arena.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Thatsnews 2008

  • Cradley Heath and Lye are under the control of Baptist militia, and last night a column of armed Jehovah's Witnesses were reported to be moving towards Blackheath from Old Hill.

    Archive 2004-01-11 Laban 2004

  • I think of the nail and chain makers of Cradley Heath, the sweated girls of the slums; I think, 'her voice fell,' of the army of ill-used women, whose very existence I mustn't mention – '

    The Convert 1907

  • According to his own account in his "Metallum Martis," he made considerable quantities of pit-coal iron at Cradley, Pensnet, Himley, and Sedgley.

    The Coal Question~ Of the Iron Trade William Stanley Jevons 1865

  • The ironmasters combined to resist his invention; they fastened lawsuit's upon him, and succeeded in getting him ousted from his works at Cradley.

    Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863

  • The new works had been in successful operation little more than a year, when a flood, long after known as the "Great May-day Flood," swept away Dudley's principal works at Cradley, and otherwise inflicted much damage throughout the district.

    Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863

  • Dud proceeded with the manufacture of iron at Pensnet, and also at Cradley in Staffordshire, where he erected another furnace; and a year after the patent was granted he was enabled to send up to the Tower, by the King's command, a considerable quantity of the new iron for trial.

    Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863

  • The ironmasters combined to resist his invention; they fastened lawsuit's upon him, and succeeded in getting him ousted from his works at Cradley.

    Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858

  • Dudley's principal works at Cradley, and otherwise inflicted much damage throughout the district.

    Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858

  • Cradley in Staffordshire, where he erected another furnace; and a year after the patent was granted he was enabled to send up to the Tower, by the King's command, a considerable quantity of the new iron for trial.

    Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858

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