Bewick & Partners Ltd

Sectors:

  • Extraction Lead extraction
  • Basic metals production Lead smelting

Notes:

Traced origins to 1874 when Thomas J Bewick, a civil and mining engineer, and other investors acquired and financed the development of a new lead mine in north Pennines at Langley Barony, Haydon Bridge. This lead deposit had been discovered by Bewick and developed by him initially (from 1873) via Honeycrook Lead Mining Co Ltd. Also established a smelter at Hebburn. Highly productive mine but in difficulties from early 1890s and closed 1893. Bewick & Partners wound up 1897

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