His father worked as a laborer in an iron foundry. Barrow was employed as superintending clerk of an iron foundry at Liverpool. It was bought by the Baker family, a prominent family in the iron foundry industry. Her adoptive father worked in the local iron foundry. His father had established a highly successful engineering business, based on an iron foundry. The Wawa business began in 1803 as an iron foundry. Heywood was an important industrial centre, home to numerous cotton mills and an iron foundry. His factory was equipped with a 12 horse-power steam engine and a cast iron foundry. His father, Filipp Markelov, worked in an iron foundry. Vaughan was a proprietor and agent of the iron foundry at Carmarthen and Kidwelly. In 1702, Peter the Great ordered the construction of an iron foundry there. Industries included a gristmill, sawmill, shingle mill, planing mill, iron foundry and machine shop. Cliff's father Harry Thomas Cliff worked at an iron foundry in Tunstall. The iron foundry was closed and demolished in 1986. "Iron Foundry" is a product of its time.