Steelworks at Grangetown. I think this is the place where a crashed WW2 German bomber was unearthed a couple of years back (This information was kindly provided by Peter Moon)
Steelworks at Grangetown. I think this is the place where a crashed WW2 German bomber was unearthed a couple of years back (This information was kindly provided by Peter Moon)
It was the Redcar Blast Furnace. Smashed to pieces in 2023.
The Newcomen Society visited it in 2018 and were not allowed to take any pictures!
This is not Grangetown it is Redcar Steelworks, look at the earlier photo of Iron Ponding.
Assuming this picture was taken on Teesside it can only be the current modern Redcar Blast Furnace built for British Steel. Note the long conveyor for feeding the burden to the top of the blast furnace, and the four columns supporting the main charging deck. Earlier blast furnaces such as Dorman Long”s Clay Lane Grangetown works, and South Durham”s blast furnaces at West Hartlepool and Greatham had steeply sloping skip bridges which accomodated two skip cars each. Also the use of support columns or posts to support the furnace top gear is a modern practice not used when these earlier blast furnaces were designed. My late father who worked for Ashmore Benson Pease & Company Limited had much to do with the design of the South Durham Blast Furnace built at Greatham, and I have recently retired from a lengthy career which included the planning of relines on Canadian blast furnaces of Algoma Steel in Sault Ste Marie, Canada.