Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - The River Ely Iron Ore Wharf . . .

The Dowlais Company's New Works - The first sods of the new works to be erected for the Dowlais Company at East Moors, Cardiff were cut by Mr. G. T. Clarks, Sir W. T. Lewis and Mr. E. P. Martin. This gigantic scheme makes a departure of great moment in the iron and steel trade, an importance of which, to Cardiff, it would be impossible to exaggerate. The three blast furnaces comprised in the first section are to be built upon the lines of the largest and best constructed furnaces. They will be fitted with the most recent improvements and labour saving devices.' - Western Mail [164] [361] 3rd January 1888.

The new works 'Dowlais-by-the-Sea' was in production in 1891 and was specifically built for the growing trade in 'Siemens ship plates' which had been widely used for ship-building since the 1870's. The Western Mail reported on the 3rd February 1891 that : 'Two of the three furnaces already erected were lighted, No. 1 by Sir W. T. Lewis and No. 2 by Mr. Martin, manager of the company.'

In 1899 the Dowlais Iron, Steel & Coal Company was formed to take over Lord Wimbourne's industrial properties and that same year they opened the Dowlais-Cardiff Colliery at Abercynon specifically to supply coal to the works at East Moors.

	A mine four miles north of Cowbridge at Llanharry supplied the East Moors works with good quality Glamorgan Hematite iron ore.
	The Dowlais-Cardiff Colliery at Abercynon ; also the local connection with Richard Trevithick.