Skinningrove Iron Works

Here’s a view of Skinningrove Iron Works looking in towards the Tarmac road gravel plant.  Unless I’m mistaken it shows No. 1, No. 3 and No. 5 Blast Furnaces, but no Sinter Plant, so it’s after 1950 and before 1958. Derick Pearson adds: “This shows no 5 Blast Furnace, Bill Norman his website of the wartime bombing made this report: ’25 July 1941, 0125 hours. 1HE and 1UXB fell some 250yds from No.5 blast-furnace, Skinningrove Ironworks. 1HE also dropped near Low Farm, Brotton. In neither case were casualties or damage inflicted.’ For the unlearned HE means High Explosive Bomb and UXB refers to Unexploded Bomb.

Image courtesy of Bob Proctor, thanks to Derick Pearson for the update.