iron works

I recently explored one of the most unusual industrial ruins in Northumberland (Video link after photographs). Hidden in the quiet Ridsdale Valley, there’s a massive stone structure that at first glance looks like the remains of a medieval castle. Tall stone walls, huge arches, and a commanding...

Holwell Ironworks Foundry Just over a year ago, news broke that Saint-Gobain had put forward plans to shutter and relocate thier Asfordby Hill iron works by the end of 2024. Overall, the news was fairly quiet with other steel and industrial works having had a much greater share of the spotlight...

Prospect Iron Works, Huddersfield - March 2022 Visited with @Esoteric Eric I wouldn’t say that there was ever much of an expectation that anything remained from this building’s history as a textile machinist, with William Whiteley and Sons and its later incarnation as J. Charlesworth, ceasing...

I visited here with the usual two friends a few years back. A tip off from a friend who lived near it that their was a large chunk of the old ironworks laying derelict. I looked on the forums and could not find pics any newer than 2013. So was quite excited for a little look. It sits next to a...

Please excuse the shitty phone pics....... Osier Bed works site was acquired by the Wolverhampton Steel and Iron Company. In 1935 Welsh industrialist Alfred Kieft and his son Cyril purchased the factory. They also owned Monmore Green Rolling Mills Limited in Wolverhampton, Haybridge Steel in...

I've been told this is in the process of demolition, so I thought I'd stick some photos up of our visit this year. @dave put a very informative thread up on this some years ago, and I will include one of the replies to that thread below as I very much enjoyed reading it. It's an odd one this...

I visited this site on the same day as my Westdown Quarry jaunt found here: https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/westdown-quarry-nr-frome-somerset-july-2020.124180/ So I have many of the same issues with the photos which have come out poorly due to a dirty lense. Apologies for that. My phone...

So after trying to get in here on my own a few weeks ago and getting kicked out we went back as a group to try and have a proper explore. Access onto the site is one of the easiest however getting into the main factory was interesting as half of the building is still active (even on weekends)...

Thought I’d check out Stanton Irom Works on my day off today, Mookster pointed me in the right direction thankfully! First I went to the exhibition building which was pretty roughed up but still took a few pictures. Then went onto the site itself, I only managed to get in one building before a...

The original explore had been planed for the iron works but due to security and questionable safety concerns as it looked as if it was mid demolition and some form excavator could be seen in one of the doorways so it was called off and the building where we entered the site was to be fell back...

This was a visit to a local factory, in Coseley -West Midlands, that I have passed many times but only recently ventured inside. I know it used to be an Iron Works of some kind but will need to research it a lot more to discover a full history. Access was fairly straightforward, a step over a...

I got this email yesterday. Seems like a cause we should help out with if we can...

-The British Iron Company was formed in 1824 by the mining engineer John Taylor, along with his associates James Henry Shears, a coppersmith, and a London merchant Robert Small. Several active ironworks were bought during 1825, along with land on which to build further mines, for the smelting...

There have been a few threads on this. To be honest this is part of a project I’m putting together for an engineering site. But I think you’ll enjoy it. The ones of you that got in to the plant after closure all missed this bit, mainly because it was on its way to Spain by then. Iron once...