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Just to keep everyone updated, i am forging the words now and ..bloomin heck its hard work! Thankyou to everyone thats contributed, theres still time for more, i have 4 more weeks to complete my work before the degree show.So please continue to add your memories of the steel industry. Again thankyou all so much. Pics soon i promise.

 

Have you read the History of Sheffield Steel and It's People site?

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Dear Kidorry,

I know this thread is a bit of date but do you still by any chance have a DVD copy or a disc copy of the book, "Hell! But i'd go back tomorrow"? Since reading these threads, I have been trying to get my hands on a copy but with no joy. I wondered if you still had it?

Thanks very much,

Paul.

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glad someone get remebered the women working in the steel works. l was l Tinsley girl and my uncle and my sisters and myself worked in the steel works for many reasons in the 70's jobs where plenty pay was good and where else could you go and sit in a canteen with loads of men. l worked in the kitchens serving and makings plate pies twice a week 400 a time and hated it mince meat pie but on the funny side learnt to swear like a navvy if a chap said his piece of pie was small then the next chaps cor if my mother could have heard me. the male chef didn't half used to make me cry and the older women took me under their wings as l was a young mum and not worldly wise, no l would not go back to them days

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<a href="http://s847.photobucket.com/albums/ab37/thryman/thrybergh/?action=view&current=scanneddec11062-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i847.photobucket.com/albums/ab37/thryman/thrybergh/scanneddec11062-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket Pictures, Images and Photos" /></a>I worked in the 12inch mill at parkgate iron&steel at sixteen years old on the 21 shift rota,7 on 2 off,hot work,you really have done a days work when you did a shift on the platescanneddec11062-1.jpg

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i think the guys and womans of this thread say it all i don't have to ad to the words already said .we was proud workers and master craftsmen in them day we got pride from making the perfect knife are fork are spoon

are a highly polished bowie knife brings tears to my eyes to see what happened Sheffield today also i get tears from the memory's to

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Dear Kidorry,

I know this thread is a bit of date but do you still by any chance have a DVD copy or a disc copy of the book, "Hell! But i'd go back tomorrow"? Since reading these threads, I have been trying to get my hands on a copy but with no joy. I wondered if you still had it?

Thanks very much,

Paul.

I think they sell them in "the Sheffield Scene" on Surrey St. but if they have none I can make you a disc but it is only audio not video.I still have the book and you can have a look at it if you want.

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This is what it was like in the rolling mills.

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Spear and Jackson Melting Shop in 1961. Note the "Safety Clothing"

 

iron1.jpg

 

Feeding alloys into the arc furnace

 

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Tapping the furnace.Temp of metal approx 1550c

 

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Teeming into a mould to make an ingot.

 

I started there as a 16 year old straight from school in 1957 as a trainee chemist and then went into the melting shop at 24 as a "steelmaker" Good days and great pals.

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Spear and Jackson Melting Shop in 1961. Note the "Safety Clothing"

 

iron1.jpg

 

Feeding alloys into the arc furnace

 

iron3.jpg

 

Tapping the furnace.Temp of metal approx 1550c

 

iron3.jpg

 

Teeming into a mould to make an ingot.

 

I started there as a 16 year old straight from school in 1957 as a trainee chemist and then went into the melting shop at 24 as a "steelmaker" Good days and great pals.

 

Sorry this is the teeming pic

 

iron2.jpg

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My dad worked on the large rolling mill in this video.http://yfa.drupal.substrakt.net/film/firth-brown-tour-works?destination=search%2Fapachesolr_search%3Fpage%3D3%26filters%3Dbs_cck_field_videola_video%253A1%2520type%253Ayfa_film%2520%2520%2528im_vid_4%253A53%2529%2520%2520%2528-tds_cck_field_year_end%253A%255B%252A%2520TO%2520-0001-12-31T00%253A59%253A59Z%252B1YEAR%252FYEAR-1MILLI%255D%2529%2520%2520%2528-tds_cck_field_year%253A%255B2010-01-01T00%253A00%253A00Z%252FYEAR%2520TO%2520%252A%255D%2529%26mode%3Dbrowse%26solrsort%3Dtds_cck_field_year%2520asc :)

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Working in a foundry? hot and sweaty.. I know my job was as shotblaster in a fettling shop which was attached to a forge and part of my job included making cups of tea for the "real workers" between my machine cycles.

Also remember going to the pub after work.. man, those guys could down 10 pints and not even feel it... real men's men the likes of which we'll never see again

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My dad worked on the large rolling mill in this video.http://yfa.drupal.substrakt.net/film/firth-brown-tour-works?destination=search%2Fapachesolr_search%3Fpage%3D3%26filters%3Dbs_cck_field_videola_video%253A1%2520type%253Ayfa_film%2520%2520%2528im_vid_4%253A53%2529%2520%2520%2528-tds_cck_field_year_end%253A%255B%252A%2520TO%2520-0001-12-31T00%253A59%253A59Z%252B1YEAR%252FYEAR-1MILLI%255D%2529%2520%2520%2528-tds_cck_field_year%253A%255B2010-01-01T00%253A00%253A00Z%252FYEAR%2520TO%2520%252A%255D%2529%26mode%3Dbrowse%26solrsort%3Dtds_cck_field_year%2520asc :)

 

Is it possible to copy this dvd to a disc?It is great.

It`s O.K. I have managed to do it.

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