Metal Industry

All vehicles to report to this office before unloading. Goods in reception at the closed Thomas Bolton copper foundry at Froghall. This has now been cleared away apart from the chimney.

Loading jetty for loading iron ore brought down to Whyalla from the opencast mines such as those at Iron Baron and Iron Knob. I am unsure whether this is stilll in use.

Disused building at the perimeter of the ArcelorMittal Steelworks at Differdange in Luxembourg. This works uses electric arc furnaces to produce beams, bars and heavy sections. It has a worldwide reputation for wide flange beams.

Appleby coke ovens at Scunthorpe steelworks. This battery comprised 66 Otto-Simon Carves ovens which were started in 1990. These were abandoned in 2023 leaving the works dependent on imported coke.

Abandoned smallholding at Cramer Gutter on Catherton Common in south Shropshire.

Water tower at Scunthorpe steelworks.

Finished product at the Leander Architectural aluminium foundry at Dove Holes.

Cooling tower and gasholder at Scunthorpe Steelworks.

Moulds ready for casting plaques and signs in aluminium at the Dove Holes foundry of Leander Architectural.

M H Watts, engineers and founders, Regent Iron Works, Catherine Street, Macclesfield. The business started in 1810 when Messrs Stringer and Green opened a machine shop in Catherine Street. A foundry was added to the works c1816/1820. Martin Watts married Anne Green and in the early 1840s was manager of the works, subsequently buying the business in 1847. Watts' foundry produced iron castings up to 30cwts from the cupola furnace and a variety of non-ferrous castings in a pit furnace. The business finally stopped production in the 1970's by which time it was in the ownership of Peter Allmand Smith, the son-in-law of Percy Watts. The premises have since been converted to apartments.