{"id":58052,"date":"2009-12-21T23:17:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T23:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=58052"},"modified":"2018-03-10T19:44:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T19:44:01","slug":"bending-arches-in-the-colliery-arch-department-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=58052","title":{"rendered":"Bending Arches in the Colliery Arch Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58051\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/BendingArchesInCollieryArchDepartment-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/BendingArchesInCollieryArchDepartment-1-1.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/BendingArchesInCollieryArchDepartment-1-1-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/BendingArchesInCollieryArchDepartment-1-1-464x300.jpg 464w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/BendingArchesInCollieryArchDepartment-1-1-150x97.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/BendingArchesInCollieryArchDepartment-1-1-400x258.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>As the mining industry modernised the coal mine in particular moved across to steel for its roof supports and Skinningrove was quick to capitalise on this; the 18\u201d (or Little) Mill being ideally suited to producing small \u2019H\u2019 beams (or \u2019I\u2019 beams, if you prefer) and as the order book grew so did the Colliery Arch Department. They were all cold-formed on these rotary bending machines. Frank Bridge advises:&#8221;I worked on this very machine back in 1973-1974, a memory worth holding on to. The men I worked with were the hardest grafting and drinking crew you could wish to meet; a truly great bunch of lads&#8221;. Eddie Watson adds: &#8220;I worked in colliery arch plant B.S.C. Cleveland.from 1975-1986. I worked my way up from stick lad on cropping machine to cambering machine puncher. Very hard work but best times of my life&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thanks to Frank Bridge and Eddie Watson for the updates and memories.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>As the mining industry modernised the coal mine in particular moved across to steel for its roof supports and Skinningrove was quick to capitalise on this; the 18\u201d (or Little) Mill being ideally suited to producing small \u2019H\u2019 beams (or \u2019I\u2019 beams, if you prefer) and as the order book grew so did the [&#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-58052","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\/58052","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=58052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58053,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58052\/revisions\/58053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}