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| Past and Present |
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| CONSETT WORKS |
| CONSETT WORKS |
| Past and Present |
| These two pictures taken before and after the closure of the Consett steel plant complex, show the works in full swing and then the reclaimed site after 1980. |
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| The steelworks from Front St. 1978 |
| The same view in 1995 |
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| The melting shop in the 1970's |
| No. 1 Blast Furnace |
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| A view of the works from NW |
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| Steel Plant, Dolomite Plant and Scrap Handling plant on the right |
| Looking over the General Offices towards the Slab Mill on the left and the Steel Plant |
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| The 'Canyon', or the road known to thousands of steelworkers, leading into the works |
| Earliest pictorial record of blast furnaces at Consett circa 1860 |
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| Pictured dramatically, left, Tommy Moore, the Derwentdale Hon. Sec., watching the last 'heat' tapped from the Consett Steel Plant, September 12th 1980 |
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