The Kidwelly Industrial Museum focuses on the

tinplate Tinplate consists of sheets of steel coated with a thin layer of tin to impede rusting. Before the advent of cheap milled steel, the backing metal was wrought iron. While once more widely used, the primary use of tinplate now is the manufacture ...

industry in Kidwelly, as well as area coal mining and brick making. The museum is located near the town of

Kidwelly Kidwelly ( cy, Cydweli) is a town and community in Carmarthenshire, southwest Wales, approximately northwest of the most populous town in the county, Llanelli. In the 2001 census the community of Kidwelly returned a population of 3,289, inc ...

Carmarthenshire Carmarthenshire ( cy, Sir Gaerfyrddin; or informally ') is a county in the south-west of Wales. The three largest towns are Llanelli, Carmarthen and Ammanford. Carmarthen is the county town and administrative centre. The county is known as ...

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, on the site of the former Kidwelly Tinplate Works. The tinplate works was originally established in 1737 and was closed in 1941. The

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of the tinplate works was

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as Grade II* in 1998Cold-roll Engine-house at former Kidwelly Tinplate Works, Kidwelly
BritishListedBuildings.co.uk. Retrieved 21 August 2013. while the works chimney, boxing room and assorting room are listed as Grade II.

References

External links

Kidwelly Industrial Museum Trust website

Carmarthenshire County Council official page
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