The Tin Stamping Works, which is of recent growth, has prospered in our midst, and the
enterprising Company which directs its affairs has acquired the Lead Works, which will at
no distant date present a scene of activity in the manufacture of Enamelled and Japanned
Goods. Steps have been taken to erect Blast Furnaces on a large scale in Llanelly, and
other new industries are contemplated. With these and the present manufactories, which
include Copperworks, steel, lead, iron, silver, chemical, brick, patent fuel works,
shipbuilding yards, both iron and wood, timber yards, -anchor smithies, ropewalks,
potteries, etc., the town at large must continue to grow and to flourish. We place the
trade- prospects, of the town first because these arts breathe to the nostrils of an
industrial community. Only the fringe of the vista of prosperity has been touched, for not
a word has been said about the rich, seams of coal that lie embedded in the earth in and
around the town. The chiefs hope of Llanelly is centred on this carboniferous strata, and
when the capital has been raised to bring it to the surface. the yield will be something
fabulous. The geographical position of the town is eminently favourable to its rapid
advance. Situated on the Burry inlet, it is the natural port from whence the vast
resources of the Gwendraeth Valley can be shipped for export. An obstacle lies in the way
of the realisation of the benefits that will some day be ours through this circumstance,
but the authorities of the port have already taken the hatchet in hand to hew it down.
The Great Mountain Colliery and others have been calling loudly for adequate dock
accommodation, and the Harbour Commissioners have resolved to construct a new and
extensive docks, the plans of which have been prepared, and the work of construction will
be shortly commenced. Increased shipping facilities, accompanied by a deeper and more
direct channel to the sea, such as is becoming more and more a reality under the able
supervision of Mr.. C. P. Fowler, will be congenial to the growth of Llanelly. What we
lack in is railway conveniences.
Llanelly Directory 1897
Regards
Richard
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