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4 unusual facts about Isaac Wilkinson


Isaac Wilkinson

Isaac became a foundryman in Bristol with involvement in the south Wales Dowlais Ironworks and Cyfarthfa Ironworks, and starting the Plymouth Ironworks with John Guest.

By now, Isaac was living in Cartmel, enjoying several business interests, including the Lowwood iron company.

Some time between 1721 and 1723, Wilkinson moved to Workington where he worked at the Little Clifton furnace which probably produced cast iron by smelting with coke.

He seems to have received some basic education before being apprenticed a foundryman, probably at the nearby Swalwell works.



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