EPW010149 ENGLAND (1924). The Cleveland Steel Works, Grangetown, 1924. This image has been produced from a copy-negative.

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Title [EPW010149] The Cleveland Steel Works, Grangetown, 1924. This image has been produced from a copy-negative.
Reference EPW010149
Date April-1924
Link
Place name GRANGETOWN
Parish
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 454625, 521363
Longitude / Latitude -1.1546868874837, 54.584389579466
National Grid Reference NZ546214

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Blast furnaces. This group was confusingly named after Bessemer, and by 1956 limited to produce speigeleisen , etc for use in refining steel from the OH furnaces

Fred Starr
Friday 25th of September 2015 05:54:24 PM
Cleveland Works Laboratories. In 1962 main duties were to analyse coal for water sulphur and ash contents, progress with refining in the OH steel furnaces and slag and iron from blast furnaces. They also had a metallography lab for investigating failures of equipment

Fred Starr
Friday 25th of September 2015 05:51:20 PM
I think that this is No 5 Rolling Mill. It was probably used for manufacturing the steelwork of the Sydney Harbour Bridge

Fred Starr
Friday 25th of September 2015 05:38:46 PM
This is Dorman Long's South Plant comprising ten open hearth furnaces. The plant was still in use in 1966 and was supplementing the newer open hearth plant at Lackenby (built 1952)

Fred Starr
Friday 25th of September 2015 05:36:49 PM
Dorman Longs Open Hearth North Plant. In the early sixties this was being converted to oxygen steel making

Fred Starr
Friday 25th of September 2015 05:34:00 PM
Dorman Longs Open Hearth North Plant. In the early sixties this was being converted to oxygen steel making

Fred Starr
Friday 25th of September 2015 05:33:55 PM