1956 BRITISH STEEL INDUSTRY FILM "STEEL ROAD" HENRY BESSEMER MINES & MINING 99084

[@oliversparks1459]

Superb Now i Know what Blast Furnace Makes and What a Beesemer Converter Does At 56 Yrs Old and i Grew up in Scunny

[@WAL_DC-6B]

Looks like at about 6:10 Thomas's ("the Tank Engine") relatives got the less glamorous task of shunting ore cars at Workington. All kidding aside, nice color and sound 1950s industrial film illustrating the long, gone Bessemer steel making process that was very instrumental in accelerating the industrial age. Thanks for sharing!

[@jacksonirving4594]

Mr Bessemer fed and clothed a lot of people..

[@allandavis8201]

It’s a pity that the mighty steel industry we had up to the 1970s is no more, and what little of it that’s left is owned by foreign companies, it still produces the finest steel in the world but it’s just a fraction of what the world needs, so inferior steel is used in huge infrastructure projects around the world that has led to many failures of the structures and causing many many deaths. Who is to blame for this? The answer is many fold, politicians, demand for steel dying during recessions, politicians, foreign companies being allowed to buy up British steel and closing down plants, plants that admittedly were not making a profit but the products they made were specialised and were difficult to make profit on without the price being so high nobody would buy it and used inferior quality steel instead, politicians, and last but by no means least the UNIONS, whilst their demands were not unreasonable they made them at a time when they were not justifiable or economically viable, Arthur Scargill and Maggie Thatcher butting heads, police and pickets butting heads (literally) companies trying to keep coal mining, steel, and other heavy industries going by using “scabs” (non union labour), so more head butting, and politicians doing what the do best, nothing, SNAFU. And when the dust settled (literally) the Steel, Coal and most heavy industries were no more. The nearest large town to the small town I lived in, Corby in Northamptonshire, went from a bustling reasonably affluent town to a ghost town very very quickly when the demise came about, and that is probably worse than the actual issues that caused the virtual extinction of British Steel. 😀😔🤬👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@zebedeezebedee]

you mention Scargill ... recently I thought to myself he was exactly what Thatcher wanted, a road to the quicker demise of coal. If Scargill had never existed mineworkers would not have lost a years pay and probably the coal industry might have lasted a little longer. Makes one wonder quite who was Scargill working for??

[@steveb60879]

​@zebedeezebedee good point. I brlongbto a union but over the years ive come to think that union leaders at the regional level and higher up have quite their own agendas apart from the members they are supposed to represent. I left the union about 2015 and quit my job because the union really seemed to be trying to force us to accept the propsal by management that we work an extra day a month whenever they wanted for only £35 extra. We kept asking the union if they had discussed alternatives, but they kept saying you wouldn't like the alternatives. When we asked for details they just said you wouldnt like them again and this was better and we should accept the proposal as it is. They were in the managements pockets as two of the union reps suddenly got a job as team leader after it had been pushed through. I only rejoined recently as the original regional leader had moved on and our new rep is definitely not in the managers pocket.

[@HomeGrownVeg]

Henry Bessemer lived through the age of steel, as I did, unfortunately I also lived to whiteness the death of steel making at Workington. I worked in the Bessemer building from age 16. I had an older brother worked in the Bessemer and one who worked on the Coke ovens. When my dad came back from the war, North Africa then Burma, he worked on the rail bank. Now the steel works has gone, the Iron ore mines are gone and the coal pits are gone.

[@alwaysbearded1]

At 2:50 he apparently discovered the Uterus furnace.

[@rustedrailsmokes]

very cool

[@lionvillelion]

closed in 2006.

[@jacksonirving4594]

And you've got that get Don King shouting " only in America".

[@satanofficial3902]

Star stuff.

[@alansharp307]

Men of iron

[@stephanesonneville]

_We're only making plans for Nigel_

[@amymckinney1397]

hey it fake