Redcar Blast Furnace demolition

Hi,

Here's the proper way to bring a chimney down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3jc0S-BLzA

Regards,

Alan

Went to see the rolling mills at Meadowhall in the sixties on a laboratory apprentice visit. At that time it was called "Steel, Peach & Tozer"

Regards Ian.

It's sad when old stuff goes, but I think it unwise to view the past through rose-tinted glasses.

How many chimneys in this photograph of Halifax? Most of them demolished during my lifetime. When I was a boy Halifax wasn't a good good place to live, it's nicer now!

Unfortunately, the pollution has moved to China were it is much, much worse...

Dave

King stuff always survives, it's the stuff ordinary people knew that gets erased

How useful would stuff like Vanguard be now for tourism etc, and I'm talking SERIOUS hard cash here

Tourists flock to interesting different stuff in their hordes waving 20 pound notes like confetti, you just feed 'em and point 'em at the interesting stuff, all they need is beds toilets and eateries

Britannia makes more money than midas, and that's one isolated item saved from the knackers yard

The destruction of 99% of industrial stuff may not be called the Beechings Cuts but the loss of historical industrial tourist destinations removed a lot of very easy money

Edited By Ady1 on 24/11/2022 11:38:24

When I was a boy Halifax wasn't a good good place to live, it's nicer now!

While Halifax today is less industrially polluted than your picture, I'm not sure it is necessarily "nicer".

At the time of your picture I am pretty certain I could have walked around any area of the town safely - not so now, as there are areas it is not wise for a person of my ethnicity to walk around in daylight.

Not somewhare I particularly choose to visit & I only live around 8 miles away. Not that Huddersfield is that much better, but both are a long way ahead of Bradford. Despite many years of "initiatives", none of these towns have really recovered from the loss the industries that caused their expansion in Victorian times.

Nigel B.

HMS Vanguard

Careful when you knock Bradford Nigel. It's about to become the "City of culture"

But yes, I agree and have lived here for more than seventy years, but it wasn't all bad.

Regards Ian.

As a son of neighbouring Leeds, I can confirm that the nearest Bradford comes to culture is the yogurt counter in Morrisons

😜

That's true, Dave. We've exported our dirty work to China, and left them with the problem to sort out.

Martin.

Edited By blowlamp on 25/11/2022 12:06:12

Edited By blowlamp on 25/11/2022 12:06:54

They've got around 400 million smokers plus 4,000,000,000 tons of coal being burned a year plus every horrible chemical industry process you can imagine

I hope their NHS has plenty hospital beds available, about 100 million should do it