{"id":55348,"date":"2009-10-19T22:19:23","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T21:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=55348"},"modified":"2017-02-20T17:07:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T17:07:29","slug":"skinningrove-iron-works-blast-furnaces-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=55348","title":{"rendered":"Skinningrove Iron Works Blast Furnaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/scn_280-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1960\" height=\"1229\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/scn_280-1.jpg 1960w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/scn_280-1-300x188.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/scn_280-1-478x300.jpg 478w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/scn_280-1-150x94.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/scn_280-1-400x251.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1960px) 100vw, 1960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A picture postcard showing the blast furnaces and pig beds at Skinningrove Iron Works.\u00a0 These are the 5 original, stone-built, blast furnaces at Skinningrove Iron Works (no Steel in the title then \u2013 we are not even sure it was called Skinningrove Iron Works\u00a0 &#8211; at this time). The furnaces were hand-loaded with large two-wheeled barrows which ran on knife-edge iron wheels (to minimise the rolling resistance), hence the gallery connecting the furnaces to the lift housings. The iron was tapped directly into a sand gully, called a sow, which had many branches, called pigs (hence the term pig-iron), each the same size and pressed into the sand with a specially-shaped former. When sufficiently cool the pigs were loaded onto trucks and taken to the jetty, via an incline, rope-hauled, railway, and then in company steamships to steelworks and iron foundries in Durham and Middlesbrough.\u00a0 Eventually they were even transported to Europe. All of these stone-built furnaces were eventually demolished and\u00a0new furnaces built; of which no. 3 and no. 5 survived.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of the Pem Holliday Collection.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>A picture postcard showing the blast furnaces and pig beds at Skinningrove Iron Works. These are the 5 original, stone-built, blast furnaces at Skinningrove Iron Works (no Steel in the title then \u2013 we are not even sure it was called Skinningrove Iron Works &#8211; at this time). The furnaces were hand-loaded with large [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ironsteel-works","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55349,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55348\/revisions\/55349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}