The Pelsall Ironworks was originally established in 1832 on Pelsall Wood Common alongside and to the north of the Wyrley and Essington Canal. By 1851 however, Pelsall Ironworks had been sold to a Messrs Davis and Bloomer who had designs on expanding the company which was re named Pelsall Coal and Iron Company.
The company owned twelve collieries in Pelsall which produced coal for the ironworks and were collectively known as Pelsall Wood Colliery.
Unfortunately, in the late 1800's the iron trade in general began to slump particularly with the advent and flexibility of steel.
The situation worsened and by 1891 the company was in irretrievable debt, and shortly afterwards, collapsed.
The company was offered for sale, but no takers for the iron works. On 24th October 1892 the collieries were sold to Walsall Wood Colliery Company and the ironworks just sold for salvage.
The screens were taken from the no 12 pit and used until 1950 at Walsall Wood Colliery, but the pit was worked until 1903, and slag was extracted from the old ironworks site until the 1930s
Today, the site is best approached via Wood Lane where there is easy parking at the end, the site reached by way of the canal bridge. Nothing of the pit there really to see apart from spoil tips at the back. However a walk in the site of the ironworks will discover pieces of furnace slag and lengths of iron rail testifying to its former use.