The Earl of Dudley's Round Oak Works : advert in : Dudley, Worcestershire : the Official Handbook : County Borough of Dudley : E. J. Burrow & Co. : nd [1929]

            One of a number of adverts from the c.1929 "Official Handbook" to the County Borough of Dudley in Worcestershire produced on behalf of the Corporation by the publisher E. j. Burrow & Co. Ltd. The adverts show the then relatively prosperous industrial and manufacturing town that was still, in many ways, closely allied to the traditional Black Country industries based on the centuries old coal, iron and steel enterprises.

The Earl of Dudley's works at Round Oak near Brierley Hill, in Staffordshire, had been established as an iron works in 1857 but, with a view to a shift to steel manufacturing, the company was reformed in 1891 as a publci company but it struggled financially and in 1897 it was reformed again under the Dudley family control as the  The Earl of Dudley's Round Oak Works Ltd. In post-war years after Nationalisation it returned to private ownership under Tube Investments before, like the rest of the industry, returning to government ownership in 1967. Finally British Steel closed the plant in 1982. The site now forms part of the Merry Hill shopping centre.

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The Earl of Dudley's Round Oak Works Ltd.

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