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http://unitelive.org/steel-in-the-blood/ http://www.unitetheunion.org/news/government-accused-of-snuffing-the-light-out-on-steelmaking-in-redcar/ Footage of Redcar steelworks blast furnace which ceased production on Friday 19th February 2010 with the loss of 1,600 jobs, was re-lit on 15th April 2012. The first steel rolled off the production line on 18th April.
A former worker there carrying out maintenance work on the dome described it as 'like hell on earth, when you looked down it was like looking into a volcano. when the orange mist came up you could'nt see your hand in front of your face, you had to be careful in case you lost your footing and plummeted into the molten metal.'
Teesside's steel Industry dates back to the 1850's when iron ore was discovered in the cleveland hills.
There were 40 furnaces aligning the river tees producing two million tons of cast iron annually. When in the 1870's Bessemer invented a method of turning iron into steel the number of furnaces began to diminish.
At it's period of greatest production the steelworks employed more than 40,000 people. The steelworks were nationalised in 1967 and became the British steel corporation. Resources were concentrated into one blast furnace at Redcar which is the second largest blast furnace in Europe.
The corporation became British Steel in 1988, in 1999 it merged with Dutch company Hoogevens to become Corus.
Some workers took voluntary redundancy, while thousands more were made redundant over the years.
The furnace was mothballed on 19th February 2010, a £320m takeover of TCP (Teesside cast products) by SSI (Sahaviriya steel industries) was signed on 24th February 2011.
On 12th October 2015 it was announced that SSI Redcar Steel Mill would be closed. The government did nothing to help.
http://www.unitetheunion.org/news/government-accused-of-snuffing-the-light-out-on-steelmaking-in-redcar/
I filmed this footage in November, December 2009.
The edited track I used for the video is 'Punished' by Throbbing gristle, performing at Sheffield University 10th june 1980, from the album throbbing gristle live volume 4 1979-1980.
http://unitelive.org/steel-in-the-blood/ http://www.unitetheunion.org/news/government-accused-of-snuffing-the-light-out-on-steelmaking-in-redcar/ Footage of Redcar steelworks blast furnace which ceased production on Friday 19th February 2010 with the loss of 1,600 jobs, was re-lit on 15th April 2012. The first steel rolled off the production line on 18th April.
A former worker there carrying out maintenance work on the dome described it as 'like hell on earth, when you looked down it was like looking into a volcano. when the orange mist came up you could'nt see your hand in front of your face, you had to be careful in case you lost your footing and plummeted into the molten metal.'
Teesside's steel Industry dates back to the 1850's when iron ore was discovered in the cleveland hills.
There were 40 furnaces aligning the river tees producing two million tons of cast iron annually. When in the 1870's Bessemer invented a method of turning iron into steel the number of furnaces began to diminish.
At it's period of greatest production the steelworks employed more than 40,000 people. The steelworks were nationalised in 1967 and became the British steel corporation. Resources were concentrated into one blast furnace at Redcar which is the second largest blast furnace in Europe.
The corporation became British Steel in 1988, in 1999 it merged with Dutch company Hoogevens to become Corus.
Some workers took voluntary redundancy, while thousands more were made redundant over the years.
The furnace was mothballed on 19th February 2010, a £320m takeover of TCP (Teesside cast products) by SSI (Sahaviriya steel industries) was signed on 24th February 2011.
On 12th October 2015 it was announced that SSI Redcar Steel Mill would be closed. The government did nothing to help.
http://www.unitetheunion.org/news/government-accused-of-snuffing-the-light-out-on-steelmaking-in-redcar/
I filmed this footage in November, December 2009.
The edited track I used for the video is 'Punished' by Throbbing gristle, performing at Sheffield University 10th june 1980, from the album throbbing gristle live volume 4 1979-1980.
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