Visited with Sal.
Scunthorpe is a steel town. It's actually better than Sheffield in terms of the scale of the industry. Driving past the plant takes about 5 or ten minutes. Part of it is disused, utterly dirty, and rather fun to mooch around. There's been a steelworks in the town since the 1860s, and iron ore mines since before then. Although since the early 1980s iron ore has been imported from abroad, having a higher iron content than the native stuff.
I'm not going to go into the process or owt like that, the area we explored whilst still massive, is only a small part of a huge site. Pretty much all of the machinery has been removed leaving cavernous halls, gutted and scarred, the odd control room and gantry crane remains.
I didn't bother taking a tripod either, which was a bit daft, so everything was high iso and handheld.
Pics.
M
Scunthorpe is a steel town. It's actually better than Sheffield in terms of the scale of the industry. Driving past the plant takes about 5 or ten minutes. Part of it is disused, utterly dirty, and rather fun to mooch around. There's been a steelworks in the town since the 1860s, and iron ore mines since before then. Although since the early 1980s iron ore has been imported from abroad, having a higher iron content than the native stuff.
I'm not going to go into the process or owt like that, the area we explored whilst still massive, is only a small part of a huge site. Pretty much all of the machinery has been removed leaving cavernous halls, gutted and scarred, the odd control room and gantry crane remains.
I didn't bother taking a tripod either, which was a bit daft, so everything was high iso and handheld.
Pics.
M