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foot each; these pieces are put into a furnace, and heated red-hot, then taken out and put between a couple of steel rollers, which draw them to the length of about four feet, and the breadth of about three inches; thence they are immediately put between two other rollers, which having a number of sharp edges fitting each other like scissors, cut the bar as it passes thro' into about eight square rods; after the rods are cold, they are tied up in bundles for the nailor's use. We din'd and spent the evening (after walking again to Dudson) at Mr. Lloyd's.
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491:: "In the early 18th century it ("Town Mills") was used, at least partly, as a slitting mill, and was called Farmer's Slitting Mill. James Farmer, ironmonger, was paying rent for the 'Town Mill' in 1720, and in 1728 Joseph Farmer obtained a lease of 'a water corn mill called the Town Mill'. Charles Lloyd occupied the mill in 1731, when it was called Lloyd's Slitting and Corn Mills"
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Charles Lloyd (1696–1741), eldest son and heir, who after his father's death and in partnership with his younger brother Samuel Lloyd, acquired the Town Mills in
Birmingham. In 1728 he acquired further, from Thomas, Bishop of Bangor, and in partnership with his younger brother Sampson Lloyd, a lease
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Next
Morning (Monday) we went to see Mr. L 's Slitting Mill, which is too curious to pass by without notice. Its use is to prepare iron for making nails. The process is as follows: they take a large iron bar, and with a huge pair of shears, work'd by a water-wheel, cut it into lengths of about a
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Lloyd married twice. His first wife was
Elizabeth Good (died 1692), by whom he had four daughters. After her death, he remarried in 1695 to Mary Crowley (born 1677), whose sister Sarah Crowley had married his elder brother Charles Lloyd (1662–1747) of Dolobran. Mary and Sarah were daughters of
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However, Birmingham had other attractions than religious toleration to Lloyd. It was a place where due to the absence of guilds controlling trade and industry, it was easy to establish a business or factory. There he "soon found scope for his energies and capital" and became an ironmaster and
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Lloyd adhered to the Quaker faith which had been adopted by his father and aged 34 in the year 1698, the year of his father's death, leaving his elder brother
Charles Lloyd (1662–1747), who had inherited Dolobran, he deserted the "uncharitableness of his native Wales" and moved about 62 miles
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by Lower Mill Lane. A later map dated 1751 shows the slitting-mill with a mill pool and a large garden. A description of the slitting mill survives in a letter dated 31 July 1755 written by visitors from London to the
Pembertons, Lloyd cousins:
429:. He married Sarah Careless, daughter of Benjamin Careless, by whom he had children including Charles Lloyd (1724–1760) and Benjamin Lloyd (1727–1804). His heir to his industrial enterprises was his younger brother Sampson Lloyd.
236:), where the Lloyd family had been established gentry for many centuries. Lloyd's mother was his father's first wife Elizabeth Lort (1633–1685), daughter of Sampson Lort (died before 1670) of East Moor in
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The Town Mill was originally a corn mill. Per 'Economic and Social
History: Mills', in A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 7, the City of Birmingham, ed. W B Stephens (London, 1964), pp. 253–269
417:, being described in the lease as "ironmongers". He inherited his father's residence at 56 Edgbaston Street, Birmingham, but later moved to Bingley House on Broad Street (later demolished to build the
332:. He also started business as an iron merchant in Edgbaston Street, Birmingham, in which he lived at number 56. He had a profitable career in the firm he founded called "Sampson Lloyd and Sons".
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at the bottom of
Bradford Street, Birmingham, on the bank of the River Rea, where by use of water power, sheet iron was cut-up to form nails. Slitting mills were especially plentiful on the
300:, dissenting preachers were not barred from preaching there. He might have been tempted to follow thousands of other Welsh dissenters in emigrating to the new American colony of
288:(home of his brother-in-law John Pemberton), a town especially tolerant of Quakers and religious dissent. There he could escape the harassing and ruthless legal penalties of the
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were probably Europe's biggest industrial complex. Sir
Ambrose lent large sums to the government which appointed him a founding director of the
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Farm and its Inhabitants with Some Account of the Lloyds of Dolobran, London, 1883
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