Anton_Berg
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This one needs a caption.
Great old industrial photos
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Redwurzel
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I remember been told wives would have a cube of steel on the mantelpiece - the cube was taken from a furnace wheere theer husband had fallen in.
My grandad went into Cargo Fleet Works at 13 years of age, because his father was too ill to work. His older brother had been killed at Gallipoli in 1915. At 13 he was told he was the man of the family and had to bring some cash in - hence he was pulled out of school.
My grandad went into Cargo Fleet Works at 13 years of age, because his father was too ill to work. His older brother had been killed at Gallipoli in 1915. At 13 he was told he was the man of the family and had to bring some cash in - hence he was pulled out of school.
Linthorpe_Exile
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Great thread this.... thanks to all for some great imagery 
40FootRoad
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By sheer coincidence, this book 'At the Works' was recently recommended by my cousin. It's on my Christmas list
Erimus74
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Fantastic photo
Erimus74
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Crazy times r00fie lad back thenCan you imagine?!
A flat cap.
No hard hat.
A howling gale.
I would have froze!
Erimus74
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Look the work gear they wore, went to work & home in the same clothes,
Erimus74
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Love the Bury cup advertSomebody gave me some disks with old photos of Skinningrove Works, there's some great stuff on them.
Tapping a blast furnace, probably a slag notch.
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Some advertising blurb, colliery arches on the first wagon (I've worked out the photo is taken on Castleton Rigg heading out towards Ralph's Cross)
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Found this quite interesting from 1920. Turns out it's not what it seems and is a bit of needle prior to an inter-departmental cup final between the Steel Plant & Coke Ovens
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HarryVegas
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Building the Newport Bridge....
Druss_The_Legend
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My Grandad was a fireman in the old Grangetown fire station(the one that became a tyre place) and he has told me of some nasty accidents he attended in the works(not sure whether that was chemical or Steel works or both) I'm assuming it was around the 70s he was a fireman.