The Coalbrookdale iron works had been situated in the iron gorge in Shropshire for over three hundred years. Seen as the founders of the industrial revolution after being the first to use coke fire blast furnaces which quickened up the production of iron.generations of families have worked at the foundry. The last company to survive there was aga/range master which sold out to an American company in 2015, but they decided that the foundry was not needed anymore. So the decision was decided to close the plant in November 2017. And all work would be done at there main works in Ketley with cast oven parts being brought in from abroad. The foundry was being stripped at a fast rate and with in a short time was a shell. The workers turned up to be told they were not needed anymore as the plant was shutting a week early, the owners in America got wind of people coming to support them and told them to get off site as quick as possible as they did not want the bad publicity. The workers shut the gates and tied boots to them. So ending over three hundred years of industrial work there were industry began...The place has a real sad feel to it being an end of an era in a great industrial part of the country. Its a sad thing with big foreign companies coming in and stripping our assets by moving them abroad or moving all the works into one area and then out sourcing for other works, but I guess its a sign of the times.
The workers boots on the gates.
Machine shop bad been partly stripped but was a few pillar drills about.
Bay were the iron ore was placed into hoppers.
The furnaces for melting the ore.
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The workers boots on the gates.
Machine shop bad been partly stripped but was a few pillar drills about.
Bay were the iron ore was placed into hoppers.
The furnaces for melting the ore.
Continued..
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