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dpack



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 23 9:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

i could not possibly say

Ty Gwyn



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 23 11:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Maybe the proposed battery factory to be built in the West Country?

gz



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 23 12:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

dpack wrote:
i could not possibly say

I think Private Eye did

Mistress Rose



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 23 7:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Still the best steel traditionally was made with charcoal, but quantity and cost are the main challenges there. I know a blacksmith who makes Damascus steel blades using charcoal. Most smiths prefer coke, but he likes charcoal better. We have given him some for his travelling forge a a present when we have been at the same show. Sadly he has gone to Canada so wish him and his family well out there.

Until coke became the norm, the iron industry was centred on the Weald of Kent and Sussex. The woodland was used to make the charcoal and there are still what are known as 'hammer ponds' down some of the valleys where the water was stored to run the bellows and hammers.

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