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        The Steel Company of Wales Limited - Burry Works

        Sheets of steel: processed, packaged and ready for despatch from Llanelli, aka β€˜Tinopolis’.

        Non-Fiction 1961 11 mins Silent

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        Logo for National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales

        Overview

        The Burry Works were situated in Llanelli, a town that earned the epithet β€˜Tinopolis’ during the Victorian era owing to the quantity – and quality - of tinplate manufactured there. Here we see a furnace being opened, steel sheets being lifted by suction and then dunked, coated and rolled before being packaged for dispatch.