Sorry - forge / foundry used interchangeably.. Bridgnorth is the correct spelling...
There really isnt anything known or recorded about that foundry - I'm quite surprised that they havent made more of it in the town. We've got Ironbridge just up the river, I'm forever digging artefacts out of the river at our place - coalport china, bits of rusty iron etc., but Bridgnorth is known more for the drunkenly leaning castle tower and cliff railway than a very important historical foundry....
Not sure where the coal and iron ore would have come from - presumably ironbridge, and brought downriver on barges from the mines in the gorge..
I wasn't trying to be pedantic, just the way it's spelt in Trevithick's book. Don't know if this is of any interest but it's the recollections of Richard Preen, taken at Bridgnorth in 1869, who worked at the foundry.
"I am now seventy years old, and was working in 1809 in John Hazeldine's engine foundry at Bridgenorth, and have been there most of' my time. About that time Mr. Trevithick came very often to the foundry. The engines Hazeldine was building were called Trevithick's engines. The outer boiler was a cast-iron cylinder like a barrel, about 5 feet in diameter. The fire was inside in a wrought-iron tube. The cylinder was let into the boiler, the four-way cock had a handle that was knocked up and down. The piston-rod had a cross-head, and two side rods went down, one to the pin in the fly-wheel, the other to a pin in the cog-wheel; some of them had a crank on one end of the shaft instead of the cog-wheel.
"Mr. 'l'revithick made another kind of engine, called the Model, some people called it the Windmill, and said it was intended to throw balls against the French. There were two great arms, each of them 10 or 12 feet long, placed opposite one another on a hollow shaft or axle, which had a nozzle in it When steam was turned on it puffed out at the ends of the arms, and they went around like lightning, with a noise like shush! shush! so then it was called by that name.
"This engine was made just before Mr. Trevithick went to South America. He did not know what to do with it, and so gave it a present to Jones, the foreman in the works.
"Master and Jones had a pretty quarrel about who should have it afterwards.
"Mr.Rastrick was considered the engineer. He quarrelled with Hazeldine about putting up the Chepstow Bridge, and set up for himself at West Bromwich, to construct portable engines, the same as they made for Mr. 'l'revithick.
"He sent word to me to come to work for him. I was then working one of Mr. l'revithick's engines in Mr. Sing's tan-yard. They said they would put me in prison if I left them. That was about 1818.
"Mr. Hazeldine's brother (William Hazeldine) lived at Shrewsbury. He built Bangor Bridge.
" A Spaniard carne once or twice with Mr. Trevithick. I was getting the core out of one of the cast-iron boilers before it was cold, for fear of straining the iron. The Spaniard sent for quarter of a cask of beer because we worked hard. Several engines and plunger-pumps were made, no piece to be larger than a mule could carry."
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.