The Archive had a series of photographs which were definitely not of Skinningrove Iron and Steel Works; we needed help in identifying them. We are now told: ”This image was taken looking through numbers 3 and 5 Bessemer Plant Blast Furnaces with the Cleveland South Plant (Redcar) Melting Shop chimneys in the background. There was a North and South plant but when the North plant was demolished they installed two electric arc furnaces.”
Image courtesy of the Pem Holliday Collection; with thanks Robert Doe, Eric Johnson, Simon Chapman and particularly Iain Hunt for correcting our details.
These are not the Bessemer Blast Furnaces at Cleveland as the stove configuration is wrong and the South Steel plant would have been in the other direction. These are the two Blast Furnaces at what was know as Warrenby Works, the plant in the background is a steel plant along with a plate mill, the steel plant and plate mill sat near to where Redcar Blast Furnace Stockhouse stood until this year.