The Butterley Ironworks on this video is actually at Ripley, not Codnor, a few miles away. The site where the loading was is now a modern housing estate. Sold off to developers shortly before the works closed for good after over 200 years of business. A once major employers, ruined by greedy asset strippers.
Thank you for uploading this. Really enjoyed it. I liked following the journey on modern street view as I watched noticing the same houses, generally. Swanwick and Alfreton. Little things like: what is now the New Life church in Church Street had a pointed roof on the top. We left the girder in Mansfield Road, I wonder where the destination was in this pre-M1 time?
Yes where was it going 65 years ago,what part of the built environment does it form, does it still stand? Got to admire the can do attitude of the time.Butterley company long gone, but their ironwork still holds up the roof of St Pancress station,such skill lost forever
The Butterley Ironworks on this video is actually at Ripley, not Codnor, a few miles away. The site where the loading was is now a modern housing estate. Sold off to developers shortly before the works closed for good after over 200 years of business. A once major employers, ruined by greedy asset strippers.
Thank you for uploading this. Really enjoyed it. I liked following the journey on modern street view as I watched noticing the same houses, generally. Swanwick and Alfreton. Little things like: what is now the New Life church in Church Street had a pointed roof on the top. We left the girder in Mansfield Road, I wonder where the destination was in this pre-M1 time?
Glad you enjoyed the video. The girder was on its way to Lincoln, part of Pelham Bridge.
Yes where was it going 65 years ago,what part of the built environment does it form, does it still stand? Got to admire the can do attitude of the time.Butterley company long gone, but their ironwork still holds up the roof of St Pancress station,such skill lost forever