Boaz Bloomer JP was a prominent industrialist from Holly Hall in Dudley, Worcestershire, England, who lived between 1801 and 1874.
It is unclear when the family became non-conformists, but a Bloomer was baptised at the Park Lane Presbyterian chapel of Cradley register in 1742.
Around the same time his friend and colleague Thomas Davis married Catherine Hornblower's half-sister Jane Bailey.
The Pelsall Ironworks had opened in 1832 and was built by Mr. Richard Fryer, a Wolverhampton banker and MP who died in 1846.
[3] In William White's 1851 History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Staffordshire the ironworks was listed as producing bar and sheet iron of the best quality.
[3] The company exported all over the world, from the United States to China and India, with nails going to Canada, Norway and Sweden.
The chapel was a large, galleried building, to which Boaz had donated the land and supported the cost of construction.
[3] Boaz was a Grand Juror during the 1840s[9] and later became a Magistrate at some point in the 1860s, overseeing a number of petty sessions in Rushall on subjects from victualler licensing to manslaughter.
[12] In the late 1860s Boaz Bloomer introduced a scheme to help employees pay for their children's education.
Boaz Bloomer believed so strongly in the need for education that, following the success of his scheme, by 1868 he had made it a condition of employment that all of an employee's children received schooling.
As the business expanded and the industrial revolution powered on, the ironworks required a rail link, which was duly established in 1865 to the London and North Western Railway.
[14] During the 1860s Pelsall Ironworks initially employed Shropshire Union Railway & Coal Company barges to help haul their wears across the country.
Mr. J. Mottram, Q.C., Judge of the Birmingham County Court found the colliery manager, Michael Harle not guilty of gross negligence but instructed him to pay the cost of the inquiry.
[17] On 15 December 1887 the Birmingham Post reported that a Goscote diagonal boiler had exploded the previous day at the No.9 Plant, one of the smaller coal pits owned by the company.
Prior to its demolition the house had continued to serve as a home, and also provided courts and a meeting point for the first Pelsall Tennis Club during the 1920s.
The plant was sold-off cheaply to Alfred Hickman of Bilston Steelworks before it was completely demolished in the early 1900s.