A little Teesside teaser

Borobarmy

Borobarmy

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Can anyone confirm if the sheds at Lackenby were laid north/south to enhance flow of beams ( going with natural forces kinda thing ) . I was told so decades ago during a site visit . I’ve resisted googling .
Is it true or a myth insofar that it is indeed plausible ( my brain is limited ) ? If true it’s a cracking discussion to get going with little ones going along the Trunk road getting them into science ( ask my nieces/nephews )

Any other little Teesside-isms while we’re at it ?
 
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Here’s another one whilst I’m on about the Trunk Road . Was it built as a great depression relief project to keep labourers busy ?
 
ICI Billingham was the inspiration for "Brave New World" ...

Aldous Huxley visited the works and this gave him the inspiration for his famous 1931 book Brave New World. (Wikipedia).

In the Second World War, atomic research also took place on the site, under the codename Tube Alloys, whereby uranium hexafluoride was made - the research was taken over as part of the Manhattan project.

They also had their own research nuclear reactor operational between 1971 and 1996.
 
I thought they went West to East. One end points toward Boro the other Redcar.
 
I worked there for a few years on/in and under every part. Above the furnace door and under the banks. North to south was the last thing on my mind! What a dirty dirty place.
Loved it though.
 
Just checked google maps and the rod mills at Scunthorpe are north-south but the section mill looks to have slipped. The plate mill doesn't/didn't either.
Note the Rod Mill's rolling direction is north-south but I think TBM is the opposite and Skinningrove is the same.
 
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RedAsABeetroot said:
Just checked google maps and the rod mills at Scunthorpe are north-south but the section mill looks to have slipped. The plate mill doesn't/didn't either.
Note the Rod Mill's rolling direction is north-south but I think TBM is the opposite and Skinningrove is the same.
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It's certainly an attractive proposition.
 
Can't answer the o/p question (yet, more research needed), however I was once told that the beam mill at Lackenby was an exact replica of the one at the world famous Bethlehem Steel Co works in Pennsylvania.
It can't have done any good. IIRC the Lackenby mill was beset by technical problems up to at least the 70s..
 
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