Baglan Bay Tinplate Company was one of a number of factories in Briton Ferry. The Briton Ferry estate was initially an area of quiet rural uplands, rivers and deserted mudflats, but during the nineteenth century the industrialisation of the Swansea and Neath valleys and the advent of the railway from London to west Wales made the area highly attractive to companies who wished to take advantage of the improved transport system and the raw materials. The Baglan Bay Tinplate Company began in the 1880s and continued until the 1960s.

References: OS historic mapping; West Glamorgan Archive Service: Records of the Briton Ferry Estate (administrative history): ref: GB 0216 DD BF;

RCAHMW, 07 December 2011.