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Title: Mason at the Steelworks ?
Post by: Kevlar on Friday 11 July 08 15:39 BST (UK)
Does anyone know what a Mason at the steelworks would have done?
My gt grandfather moved as a mason in Bristol to Swansea where his occupation is listed as a Mason at the Steelworks .

any Ideas

kev
Title: Re: Mason at the Steelworks ?
Post by: Leiper48 on Friday 11 July 08 16:10 BST (UK)
 The furnaces and vessels for holding the molten metal would be lined with fireclay or firebricks. A mason would be employed to install this lining and to repair it as it wore and burned away.

 Otherwise he might just have been doing building work or repairs. :-\