Down the Tubes - CultureNL Museums
By the mid-1900s the tubemaking giant Stewarts and Lloyds had multiple factories in Coatbridge alone as well as Airdrie and Mossend. Andrew Stewart was one of the key figures in the …
Gartcosh steel works - Essay - Back to the future: 1979-1989
The closure of the Gartcosh finishing mill in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire in 1986 represented one of the most significant single episodes in the transformation of Scotland's industrial and …
Stewarts & Lloyds - Wikipedia
Stewarts & Lloyds was a steel tube manufacturer with its headquarters in Glasgow at 41 Oswald Street. The company was created in 1903 by the amalgamation of two of the largest iron and …
Gartcosh Steelworks (British Steel Corporation) - RAILSCOT
This is the junction between the line west to Glasgow via Stepps and east to Cumbernauld (to the north east) and Coatbridge Central (to the south east). The Cumbernauld route is double track, …
So Your Ancestor Worked in the Iron Industry? - CultureNL Museums
Here, naturally-occurring iron ore was ‘smelted’ into ‘pig iron’ which was cast as ingots (known as ‘pigs’) of hard, brittle iron which would be melted down and used in the other two types of …
From the Romans to Ravenscraig: a history and decline of Scotland…
2015年10月20日 · British Steel was privatised in 1988 by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, while high manufacturing costs, a downturn in shipbuilding, free-market and overseas competition …
Sites & locations - British Steel
We have facilities across the UK and Europe, supplying high-quality steel products around the world including an integrated steelmaking site in Scunthorpe, UK.
British Steel
We manufacture more than 1,450 different specifications of steel that is rolled into wire rod, sections, special profiles, rail, billet, bloom and slab. We supply an unrivalled sections product …
Ravenscraig: British Steel - CultureNL Museums
British Steel is one of those iconic brands that conjures up images of postwar Britain. The era of government ownership covered some of the most successful times in Scottish steel production …
British Steel (2016–present) - Wikipedia
British Steel Limited is a long steel products business founded in 2016 with assets acquired from Tata Steel Europe by Greybull Capital, then acquired by Jingye Group in 2020. [4] . The …