Now that's put's into perspective how some people feel so strongly about the British steel site, excellent footage perfect flight paths, and the track gave the video a reason to watch it to the end really well done 👏👏👍.
@@whiterosealtitude I've just watched from start to finish and I could feel the pain it took to build the furnace, and the sorrow as it's been pulled down piece by piece, excellent footage excellent music.👏👍
I have grave doubts that it is for no reason, if America finds itself engaged in another total war i fear our country's enemies will be able to take advantage of this weakness.
The 14 metre dia blast furnace was designed in Stockton by Davy Ashmore in Bowesfield Lane, in the early/mid 70’s. The Clay Guns, and the Bell-less top were designed and manufactured by Paul Wurth in Luxembourg. This design enabled operation at higher pressure for efficiency. The aerial views show very clearly the coffee pot type bleeder valves on the very top of the furnace. These were in effect safety valves which would open to relieve pressure if material in the furnace hung up and dropped suddenly into the molten metal below. When the hot metal was tapped it would flow into torpedo cars and then taken directly to the Boss Plant for the production of structural steel. “And it’s all around the town , all around the town, this hard ring of iron”….Graham Miles.
the first time those valves opened, when there was a burden collapse after the strike about sometime in the 80s there was a sound like a volcano a Big Red Cloud and everybody in the Contol room needed new underwear!!
I hate seeing some many jobs going to China it's very sad to think about the families that lost everything when Steel mills like this are shutt down much like the steel mill my father and many my family members worked in in it's hay day it employed over 3000 men and women now only 150 employees with no hot end only rolling mill still running God Bless all the families that lost everything to Shity governments and and management
china didn't shut Teesside India Did and they will do the same in Wales when the Tap i$ $hut off Think of Teesside when you drink your Tetley Tea TATA Destroyed Teesside Iron works Lackenby Steelworks Ran it into the Ground and Sucked it Dry, Asset Stripped!!
A sad sight to see... what is more heartbreaking, is the lost knowledge, the lost jobs and the decline of communities. Much the same for our rail and coal industry.
Every so often i find a video that really blows me away,and this is one of them! Superb drone/camera work,which gives a very powerful feel along with the awesome soundtrack. Very impressive.
Great footage and soundtrack. So sad to see this great Behemoth of Iron making left to die. As an ex British Steel/ Corus Heavy End employee at Llanwern, Newport I can appreciate the sadness involved in ending the life of such a great British Industry as they demolished our Steel making end back in the early 2000's. I'm still in the Steel industry as a Melter/ Operator on an Arc Furnace but I do miss the noise sound, smell and the sheer size of the Ore Stockyards, Grading Plants, Sinter Plants, Coke Ovens, Blast Furnaces, Bos Plants and the Continuous Casters. Great days never forgotten.
When I was a kid we would go to Redcar on the train just so we could see the coke ovens and steel works ,see the trains with molten metal from the bus on the trunk road ,these folk made fantastic steel it was sent far and wide and still standing strong reliable ,I worked for a haulage firm that shifted beams took moulds to Scunthorpe for repair ingots all over the country and now look what’s happened a new vision said the MPs and councillors stick your vision up your arse you have killed a once great historic works ruined people’s live for what cheap steel thats made of chocolate that knackered before it gets here oh don’t allow smoke to come out into the atmosphere so we’ll let China Russia America do that at our expense we are bloody soft for listening to these daft do gooding buggers we’ve lost the lot up north no coal no chemical industry no electric no oil thanks government for ball all sorry an old fart rant great video with a tear in me eye 😢👍👨🏻🏭🇬🇧
It’s not an old fart rant. The UK and the US heavy industry is being systematically destroyed and all designs and equipment sent to China. I’m an injection molder and it’s the same lot here we are just holding on. This is all by design not some happenstance thing that is an accident from bad policy
The men who knew how to build and erect structures like these are just about dead and gone and they can never be replaced because it takes getting up off your asses drop the video game controller and learn a trade! Here is a list of tradesmen it took to build this plant. Laborers, Iron Workers Plumbers and Steamfitters, Electricians, Insulators. Sheet Metal workers, Brickmasons, These are the real HERO'S that gave their all in all kinds of weather! working all shifts! Saint preserve us we have lost our industrial might! 😢
As a demo guy I find this fascinating with the long reach excavator. But at the same time a sense of sadness comes over me as this was a mighty plant which helped build a country.😔
That was a stunning piece of footage. The adding of the fantastic sound track made made it very emotive. A once great creature being devoured by the mechanical vultures. LOVED IT😍😍
It’s a video that reminds us of an industry, along with coal and chemicals that sustained communities in the North East for many years. I can’t help thinking of the people who designed, constructed and operated the processes taking raw materials and transforming them into every day products. Whilst we are saddened by the demolition of the industrial heritage, it is the people who remain, and are most affected by the demise of heavy industry.
Was at lackenby for 23 years as a cleaner 15 years at the bos 3 and half years at beam Mill and when it opened up again worked at the concast for 4 and half years loved every minute of it.made some great friends will be so sad to see it go the bos and concast 🥺🥺
Marvelous, thanks for making. Beautifiul scenes and very suitable music for better experience (and the poems too). I have not worked on such kind of factories but I admire it so much.
Why did this steelworks get closed? Is is just because it could be done cheaper overseas, or was it another case of being bought out by a company that did nothing but strip it of its assets and value, while running it into the ground? It's a mystery to me why many supposedly "advanced" countries are killing off their ability to make things, which increases reliance on what is essentially, the goodwill of other countries, despite whatever agreements exist on paper.
China polluting the world with cheap poor quality steel: and lack of help or intervention from the UK Government as the wanted the site for so called ‘greener energy’. most abhorrent act ever 🤬
@@whiterosealtitude It really saddens me to see so much of our once great industry scrapped like this and our skills being lost. They say it is more economical to make steel in China and import it, and now we have become so reliant on other nations we face spiralling inflation and shortages of goods we used to make ourselves. In these ever more uncertain times we needed our self sufficiency more than ever.
This type of industrial labor, whether it be working in a mine or on an oil rig or in a steel mill is lost on today's millennial workforce. They just simply do not want to do it. They would much rather live like a shut-in and work from home. Don't believe me? They got a little taste during the "pandemic" of working from home and when it came time to saddle up and get back to work, look how many of them threw a fit, threatened to quit, threatened to sue, walk out, etc... It's the typical lazy, cop-out thing to point the finger & blame "China" when the actual problem starts right at home.
@@snoozeflu You couldn’t be any more wrong if you tried. Firstly, the Teesside Steel works was mothballed in 2015, five years BEFORE the pandemic. Secondly, China’s over production of cheap brittle poor quality steel, was the catalyst of multiple steel works closing down globally, not just the UK, and also before Teesside was mothballed. Thirdly, myself and thousands of others would crawl over broken glass to work 60+hrs a week in arduous conditions. Why? Because it wasn’t just a job, it was an industry we were and still are vehemently passionate about. Please get your facts right before commenting on my channel again.
@@snoozeflu Thats true. Brought up in a world of technology fewer now take any interest in working in a manual job. Also skills like soldering brazing welding ect are no longer taught in schools so there is no incentive to go into engineering construction jobs anymore. But the government stopped investing in our industry years ago and let things decline. I think taking education out of schools was a big mistake.
Absolutely fantastic but sad I loved working at Redcar before I moved to London in 1988 I started as boy at skinning grove Iron and Steel when I was fifteen
A superb record of the death throes of steel making on a large scale on Teesside. Soon to be gone hopefully you will capture further "progress" and if the plans are fulfilled the rebirth of the site. Thanks for posting
This is awesomely emotional video, thank you so much. England's slow and painful death. If only her Sons and Daughters were motivated the same way Commander James Reece is, She would have never died. Long Live England's Dark Satanic Mills.
Thanks; I really enjoyed that poignant pairing of music, words and great drone photography of hard industry and beautiful wild landscape. We should be able to develop great, green, worthwhile productive industry here. There’s no point in making from poor-quality imported dirtily-produced materials where the environmental cost is greater but remote. And that’s before you even consider the strategic value of these old primary industries we’ve so eagerly kicked over.
I worked nights in Stockton and when I drove from my house in Darlington alone the A66 you sometimes would see the flames from the furnace. It light up the night sky. Also the opening scene to the film Blade Runner was inspired by this. Sade to think it’s all gone.😢
That plant could have lasted 100 years. It's a shame to see it destroyed just so some corporate fat cats can save a little money on their bottom line by switching to low-quality Chinese steel.
Impressive structure whether you like it or not. Better its scrapped and removed than just allowed to collapse, it is useful metal when all said and done but Im sure it will be a nightmare to actually remove.
Well made and well edited film of a horrible work place. I filmed in a steelworks in Lanarkshire as it was closing down many years ago and it was like being in the depths of Hell.
---- the people who worked here, (and anywhere else) on BFs, BOFs, Mills --- know well how every cell of the body urges for another day at works, heat and dust beyond endurance of average human being Notwithstanding! ---- extremely sad when a great art, magnificent science get crushed under wheels of economic considerations ---- What about EAFs, are there any plans? Mills can be saved and no one, absolutely no one can run EAFs better than BF, BOF people as they have tremendous feel of metal.
Truely we have lost our way as a nation , when tearing this integrated steel plant down , is the option chosen , in favour of importing inferior steel from overseas ,! Criminal
It’s the cyclone for taking dust from the blast furnace flue gas - before this gas is sent to the heat exchangers (the four large cylindrical towers in the far side of the blast furnace contain heat absorbing refractory bricks - with air channels between them the bricks are first blown over by hot exhaust gases from the cyclone - then closed & fresh cold air is drawn in heated by the bricks - the heated air is forced in at the base of the blast furnace to burn the coke& limestone & reduce the iron oxide ore to iron. They are switched in and out in turn - heating & cooling cycles.
how very sad to do away with such a beautiful machine , it would have been great to see it making steel live. some day they will be sorry they this to a great machine that helped a country become strong and safe. now the send the men and machine away forever. just think what it took to build that and run it.
There was nothing wrong with the one that’s there until they mothballed the plant down improperly.. Even IF they re-opened the plant, the way they knocked the furnace off, there was no return for it. Disgusting disregard.
Now that's put's into perspective how some people feel so strongly about the British steel site, excellent footage perfect flight paths, and the track gave the video a reason to watch it to the end really well done 👏👏👍.
Thank you Steve. Not a day goes by when i don’t miss or think about the place, or the industry and history. Some very very fond memories made there.
@@whiterosealtitude I've just watched from start to finish and I could feel the pain it took to build the furnace, and the sorrow as it's been pulled down piece by piece, excellent footage excellent music.👏👍
An it all started with thatcher! Don’t forget that!!!
It’s gonna get worse!
Paul
Sparrows PT. Bethlehem / rg steel mill ckosed in 2012. Our nation needs steel Badly. This mustbe fixed at once.
It makes me sad how a once robust manufacturing industry in this country has been systematically and intentionally destroyed for no reason.
I have grave doubts that it is for no reason, if America finds itself engaged in another total war i fear our country's enemies will be able to take advantage of this weakness.
There's definitely a reason, to leave you weak and defenseless.
It’s called corporate greed!
@@scruffguitar2 Don't worry. The Koreans and Indians are doing an excellent job, while the British can sit back, sip their lattes and relax.
@@jefftoll604 lattes? Surely tea would be more apropos
The 14 metre dia blast furnace was designed in Stockton by Davy Ashmore in Bowesfield Lane, in the early/mid 70’s. The Clay Guns, and the Bell-less top were designed and manufactured by Paul Wurth in Luxembourg. This design enabled operation at higher pressure for efficiency. The aerial views show very clearly the coffee pot type bleeder valves on the very top of the furnace. These were in effect safety valves which would open to relieve pressure if material in the furnace hung up and dropped suddenly into the molten metal below. When the hot metal was tapped it would flow into torpedo cars and then taken directly to the Boss Plant for the production of structural steel.
“And it’s all around the town , all around the town, this hard ring of iron”….Graham Miles.
the first time those valves opened, when there was a burden collapse after the strike about sometime in the 80s there was a sound like a volcano a Big Red Cloud and everybody in the Contol room needed new underwear!!
Thanks for this. I made a good living from my efforts at this plant and made some good friends too. RIP Redcar and Lackenby.
Rest In Pieces
I hate seeing some many jobs going to China it's very sad to think about the families that lost everything when Steel mills like this are shutt down much like the steel mill my father and many my family members worked in in it's hay day it employed over 3000 men and women now only 150 employees with no hot end only rolling mill still running God Bless all the families that lost everything to Shity governments and and management
So true. Governments bringing a once wonderful country to its knees. Very sad
@@davidshelton876 It will be a sad day if the same fate happens to Port Talbot in South wales.I'm in awe whenever we drive past it.
china didn't shut Teesside India Did and they will do the same in Wales when the Tap i$ $hut off Think of Teesside when you drink your Tetley Tea TATA Destroyed Teesside Iron works Lackenby Steelworks Ran it into the Ground and Sucked it Dry, Asset Stripped!!
A sad sight to see... what is more heartbreaking, is the lost knowledge, the lost jobs and the decline of communities.
Much the same for our rail and coal industry.
Every so often i find a video that really blows me away,and this is one of them! Superb drone/camera work,which gives a very powerful feel along with the awesome soundtrack. Very impressive.
Great footage and soundtrack. So sad to see this great Behemoth of Iron making left to die. As an ex British Steel/ Corus Heavy End employee at Llanwern, Newport I can appreciate the sadness involved in ending the life of such a great British Industry as they demolished our Steel making end back in the early 2000's. I'm still in the Steel industry as a Melter/ Operator on an Arc Furnace but I do miss the noise sound, smell and the sheer size of the Ore Stockyards, Grading Plants, Sinter Plants, Coke Ovens, Blast Furnaces, Bos Plants and the Continuous Casters. Great days never forgotten.
One of the last pieces of our rich industrial past, a sad ending.
When I was a kid we would go to Redcar on the train just so we could see the coke ovens and steel works ,see the trains with molten metal from the bus on the trunk road ,these folk made fantastic steel it was sent far and wide and still standing strong reliable ,I worked for a haulage firm that shifted beams took moulds to Scunthorpe for repair ingots all over the country and now look what’s happened a new vision said the MPs and councillors stick your vision up your arse you have killed a once great historic works ruined people’s live for what cheap steel thats made of chocolate that knackered before it gets here oh don’t allow smoke to come out into the atmosphere so we’ll let China Russia America do that at our expense we are bloody soft for listening to these daft do gooding buggers we’ve lost the lot up north no coal no chemical industry no electric no oil thanks government for ball all sorry an old fart rant great video with a tear in me eye 😢👍👨🏻🏭🇬🇧
It's not accident, and they aren't do-gooders.
It’s not an old fart rant. The UK and the US heavy industry is being systematically destroyed and all designs and equipment sent to China. I’m an injection molder and it’s the same lot here we are just holding on. This is all by design not some happenstance thing that is an accident from bad policy
British Steel, once a byword for Quality.
The men who knew how to build and erect structures like these are just about dead and gone and they can never be replaced because it takes getting up off your asses drop the video game controller and learn a trade! Here is a list of tradesmen it took to build this plant. Laborers, Iron Workers Plumbers and Steamfitters, Electricians, Insulators. Sheet Metal workers, Brickmasons, These are the real HERO'S that gave their all in all kinds of weather! working all shifts! Saint preserve us we have lost our industrial might! 😢
As a demo guy I find this fascinating with the long reach excavator. But at the same time a sense of sadness comes over me as this was a mighty plant which helped build a country.😔
Helped build an empire and won 2 world wars.
Now no one has the balls to get up there and chop it up by hand, have to do it from a safe distance and the comfort of an air conditioned cab.
@@johnlockesghost5592 then get your ass out there and tear it down by hand tough guy since you wanna run your stupid mouth....go ahead
That was a stunning piece of footage. The adding of the fantastic sound track made made it very emotive. A once great creature being devoured by the mechanical vultures. LOVED IT😍😍
Thank you..
It’s a video that reminds us of an industry, along with coal and chemicals that sustained communities in the North East for many years. I can’t help thinking of the people who designed, constructed and operated the processes taking raw materials and transforming them into every day products. Whilst we are saddened by the demolition of the industrial heritage, it is the people who remain, and are most affected by the demise of heavy industry.
Amazing that somebody knew how all that worked.
Was at lackenby for 23 years as a cleaner 15 years at the bos 3 and half years at beam Mill and when it opened up again worked at the concast for 4 and half years loved every minute of it.made some great friends will be so sad to see it go the bos and concast 🥺🥺
only used one Brush in 23 years!
Marvelous, thanks for making. Beautifiul scenes and very suitable music for better experience (and the poems too). I have not worked on such kind of factories but I admire it so much.
Thank you
A really imaginative video, always good to get ideas in inspiration from fellow drone flyers 👍🏻
Thank you Andy
Why did this steelworks get closed? Is is just because it could be done cheaper overseas, or was it another case of being bought out by a company that did nothing but strip it of its assets and value, while running it into the ground?
It's a mystery to me why many supposedly "advanced" countries are killing off their ability to make things, which increases reliance on what is essentially, the goodwill of other countries, despite whatever agreements exist on paper.
China polluting the world with cheap poor quality steel: and lack of help or intervention from the UK Government as the wanted the site for so called ‘greener energy’.
most abhorrent act ever 🤬
@@whiterosealtitude It really saddens me to see so much of our once great industry scrapped like this and our skills being lost. They say it is more economical to make steel in China and import it, and now we have become so reliant on other nations we face spiralling inflation and shortages of goods we used to make ourselves. In these ever more uncertain times we needed our self sufficiency more than ever.
This type of industrial labor, whether it be working in a mine or on an oil rig or in a steel mill is lost on today's millennial workforce. They just simply do not want to do it. They would much rather live like a shut-in and work from home. Don't believe me? They got a little taste during the "pandemic" of working from home and when it came time to saddle up and get back to work, look how many of them threw a fit, threatened to quit, threatened to sue, walk out, etc... It's the typical lazy, cop-out thing to point the finger & blame "China" when the actual problem starts right at home.
@@snoozeflu You couldn’t be any more wrong if you tried.
Firstly, the Teesside Steel works was mothballed in 2015, five years BEFORE the pandemic.
Secondly, China’s over production of cheap brittle poor quality steel, was the catalyst of multiple steel works closing down globally, not just the UK, and also before Teesside was mothballed.
Thirdly, myself and thousands of others would crawl over broken glass to work 60+hrs a week in arduous conditions. Why? Because it wasn’t just a job, it was an industry we were and still are vehemently passionate about.
Please get your facts right before commenting on my channel again.
@@snoozeflu Thats true. Brought up in a world of technology fewer now take any interest in working in a manual job. Also skills like soldering brazing welding ect are no longer taught in schools so there is no incentive to go into engineering construction jobs anymore. But the government stopped investing in our industry years ago and let things decline. I think taking education out of schools was a big mistake.
A work of art.
Absolutely fantastic but sad I loved working at Redcar before I moved to London in 1988 I started as boy at skinning grove Iron and Steel when I was fifteen
A superb record of the death throes of steel making on a large scale on Teesside. Soon to be gone hopefully you will capture further "progress" and if the plans are fulfilled the rebirth of the site. Thanks for posting
This is awesomely emotional video, thank you so much.
England's slow and painful death. If only her Sons and Daughters were motivated the same way Commander James Reece is, She would have never died. Long Live England's Dark Satanic Mills.
Wow, amazing you got a song featured in a major blockbuster The Equaliser!
Awesome shots.
You dont ask, you dont get.. Was surprised Mr Hemsey replied….
Fantastic that. You just get a glipse of the enjournamity of the place.
Thanks; I really enjoyed that poignant pairing of music, words and great drone photography of hard industry and beautiful wild landscape.
We should be able to develop great, green, worthwhile productive industry here.
There’s no point in making from poor-quality imported dirtily-produced materials where the environmental cost is greater but remote.
And that’s before you even consider the strategic value of these old primary industries we’ve so eagerly kicked over.
Subbed
_"I am the personification of death. Woe to my enemies. Fear me and weep."_ -- Michael Scott
Fantastic. Thank you!
Wow! Fantastic.. Great tune also.
A nation that creates nothing eventually becomes nothing.
So true, the signs are already evident
No music, just metal!
I worked nights in Stockton and when I drove from my house in Darlington alone the A66 you sometimes would see the flames from the furnace. It light up the night sky. Also the opening scene to the film Blade Runner was inspired by this. Sade to think it’s all gone.😢
film Blade Runner was Wilton and Billingham ICI
The music they use instantly made me think of the movie The Equalizer with Denzel Washington
That’s because it is that very music.. I was kindly given full permission to use it
@@whiterosealtitude that's way cool perfect choice to
If that steel is pre 1944, it is much sought after.
Beautiful!!
Thank you
Fabulous! good to catch up!
Security didnt return after you left. 😅
That plant could have lasted 100 years. It's a shame to see it destroyed just so some corporate fat cats can save a little money on their bottom line by switching to low-quality Chinese steel.
A little bit more color grading and its an cinematic masterpiece. Great work!
Awesome this is how you make a drone video and edit 💪🏻 for perfection
Thank you 😊
Class video Bob. 👏👏👏👏
Thank you Andy
Impressive structure whether you like it or not. Better its scrapped and removed than just allowed to collapse, it is useful metal when all said and done but Im sure it will be a nightmare to actually remove.
Well made and well edited film of a horrible work place. I filmed in a steelworks in Lanarkshire as it was closing down many years ago and it was like being in the depths of Hell.
Thanks, but i loved working there, and i’d go back in a heartbeat
Cool song
Someone got Filthy Rich from selling all of the scrap metal!
It makes me very sad to see British manufacturing destroyed for the sake of someone making money from importing vital materials. 😢
I'm a former Pittsburgh steelworker... one becomes attached to the furnaces...they are given female names.
we sent steel slabs to Tuscaloosa steel in the 2000s if I remember
Sold to China.
Just like the blast furnaces in Americam
---- the people who worked here, (and anywhere else) on BFs, BOFs, Mills --- know well how every cell of the body urges for another day at works, heat and dust beyond endurance of average human being Notwithstanding!
---- extremely sad when a great art, magnificent science get crushed under wheels of economic considerations ----
What about EAFs, are there any plans? Mills can be saved and no one, absolutely no one can run EAFs better than BF, BOF people as they have tremendous feel of metal.
Absolutely, couldn’t agree more.
Excellent. It's kinda how We used to be built. Nothing Woke to see here.
hey man hello i just discovered you! it is really beautiful, do you know the Eregli Iron and Steel factories in Turkey w
Truely we have lost our way as a nation , when tearing this integrated steel plant down , is the option chosen , in favour of importing inferior steel from overseas ,! Criminal
Why did it close? Growing up near 3 steel towns in NE.Ohio this sure looks like it was quite a modern integrated steel making plant?
China polluting the world with cheap brittle steel, and abhorrent lack of support from UK Government.
It happened at weirton steel bop. Look it up! On u tube. Blast furnaces gone!
Great work Bob thank you, ignore the bad keyboard warrior it’s just trying to get a rise out of you. A sad man/woman
Aye, didn’t work well for them 😂
Those old foundry men had a bizarre take in music
May have to get our steel from Moscow
Read about the give away of the site in Private Eye.
When's this bit getting demolished?
It’s the cyclone for taking dust from the blast furnace flue gas - before this gas is sent to the heat exchangers (the four large cylindrical towers in the far side of the blast furnace contain heat absorbing refractory bricks - with air channels between them the bricks are first blown over by hot exhaust gases from the cyclone - then closed & fresh cold air is drawn in heated by the bricks - the heated air is forced in at the base of the blast furnace to burn the coke& limestone & reduce the iron oxide ore to iron. They are switched in and out in turn - heating & cooling cycles.
@@waterbluedeep Fantastic explanation
Thank biden for our economy sending everything overseas
China smiles.
how very sad to do away with such a beautiful machine , it would have been great to see it making steel live. some day they will be sorry they this to a great machine that helped a country become strong and safe. now the send the men and machine away forever. just think what it took to build that and run it.
Well,I hope they are going to build a new one!
There was nothing wrong with the one that’s there until they mothballed the plant down improperly.. Even IF they re-opened the plant, the way they knocked the furnace off, there was no return for it. Disgusting disregard.