hiall,I am involved in a dispute with british steel, I say I worked in the spring works in the mid 70s, they say they never had a springworks.This will probably come as a great shock to any Ford motor company execs as we used to make car springs for the new fiesta [as it was then] & also made multi leaf springs for trucks etc.the spring shop was at the top of the site on shepcote lane called coloquioly the ponderosa.can any 1 help with any relevant info etc. mny thnx.

Daddy who worked at ponderosa in the 70's says you are quite correct he worked close by as a maint. engineer for British Steel.

Ponderosa was a third of a way up shepcote lane and he is convinced the spring works were BSC.

:) thnx 4 swift reply,apparantly brit steel no longer exists,ime an expat living in Scarborough.Ive got an ongoing damages claim against b.s.c--corus-whoever-lol & they reckon [despite inland revenue proof] that not only did i not work there but they never owned a springworks. Startin 2 feel a bit like big Arnie in the Total recall film.

Have a look at this (http://www.corusgroup.com/en/company/about_corus/background/)
it details when the merger took place and might give you some leads. :thumbsup:

Just had a look on the web and there is still a firm on Shepcote lane that make knives but guess what their address is:

Tyzack Machine Knives Ltd
Tinsley Park Spring Works
Shepcote Lane
Sheffield S9 2DZ

Could this be the old building you worked in perhaps?

thnx again foxm8,corus say -in their view the tinsley park spring works were owned by a different company & not british steel or corus.uuuuuuummmmmmm, very strange as when big breakdowns occured we were seconded to other departments or indeed transfered to other depts & my payslips all had brit steel logos on them[which sadly i avent saved for 30 years-lol]

looks like yr up a creek without a paddle then :(

:) ahh,nice 1,was jus thinkin if it was a total recall thing whether i could be reprogrammed as a 70s rock star instaed of a steel worker-lol

thnx again m8,will get on2 my solicitor asap,as theyre ovioslly takin the pi**.seems like an address mixup

these people (http://www.tinsleybridge.co.uk/) may still have somebody working there who was there in the 70's - a long shot, but....

Have you contacted your trade union?

If anybody will know and have records still, I'd have thought the union would ;)

:( cant remember what union i was in.if any 1 worked in the afore mentioned place,plze do a post,ime not wanting allies 2 get embroiled in legal proceedings, I just want a pointer in the right direction as this has now become my hobby.If i find any current jobs in state owned industries where you get a well decent wage with a pension & annual holidays,overtime rates[double time triple time on bank holidays,days in lieu etc.] even though you dont seem to exist once theyve closed down[mmm politician springs to mind]ile let yall know.mny thnx,willo

Could it have been the ISTC (Iron and Steel Trades Confederation). It's now called Community.