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Further west, near Pont Lliw (Map site E), waterpower was used to drive forging and milling machinery early in the eighteenth century, at a works known as Lliw Forge. Enlarged in the nineteenth century under the White family, it developed specialist skills and products for the tinplate industry that kept it working up to 1918, when the works finally closed. It remained intact, a ghost works with all its water-powered machinery and tools under lock and key, gathering dust up to 1941. In the war years there was a search for scrap metal and thus Lliw Forge was doomed. What a wonderful industrial museum it would have made!