Steel works of Walker & Booth

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Rotherham, United Kingdom

Location of the steel works from 1748 until 1829.

See organisation: Walker & Booth.

Traveljournal 1814

Sheffield and Rotherham, 5 September 1814

Traveljournal 1846

Fischer shows Huntsman a picture of his works, 27 October 1846

Munford, Anthony Peter: Iron & Steel Town: An Industrial History of Rotherham. Sutton 2003, S. 23f. (Internet Archive, Stand 28.9.2022).

Cite as: Steel works of Walker & Booth. In: Travel Reports of a Pioneer: Digital Edition of the Travel Journals of Johann Conrad Fischer 1794–1851. Published by Franziska Eggimann. Edited by Franziska Eggimann, Nicolau Lutz, Valerija Rukavina und Christopher Zoller-Blundell. Schlatt 2023, Version 1.2, https://johannconradfischer.com/en/places/gfa-places-1797, viewed on 4 June 2026.

[[title]] — Steel works of Walker & Booth (detail from the Ordnance Survey Map of 1854)