Aerial View directly over the Steelworks.

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Aerial view of the Steelworks with Seaton Lane in the foreground.

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Aerial view of the Steelworks with the docks in the background.

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Taken in the mid 1980s, the image shows the Steelworks' Bridge on the left and trucks on the complex of train lines between the steelworks and Coronation Drive. Much of the North Works was  demolished in 1977.

Blast furnaces at North Works, taken from slag bank.

Blast furnaces at North Works with pit props in foreground, taken from steel works bridge.

Taken in the mid 1980s 

Coke ovens at the North Works of the Steel Works.Date unknown although it will be some time ago judging by the attire of the workmen and the lack of health and safety equipment!

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Female steelworlkers posing for a photograph in 1940. Obviously taken before a shift as they are all very clean.

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This photo must have been taken sometime after 1957 but before most of the works were demolished.

This photograph shows the sinter plant and number 2 blast furnace as seen underneath the rising conveyor to the sinter plant. It will be after 1959 when number 2 blast furnace was commissioned.

Hartlepool Steel Works' No. 3 Mill. Picture c1940

Old Picture of Steelworlers from a Hartlepool plant. Date unknown

Workman in the steelworks

Here an operator is throwing salt on to a plate which is being rolled. When the plate goes back between the rolls for its next pass the salt is breaks down the scale (iron oxide) and the water washes it away. This method has long since ceased to be a process in steel making. 

There are at least 14 sets of railway lines on this photo of the North Works in the early 1950s. Today there is one north and one soutbound line in the same place.

Amongst  other things, the trucks are carrying steel, coal and pit props.

THe highlight at Longhill surrounded by the North Steel Works. The light was built in 1839 along with the Low Light at Seaton. One light shone above the other to give double lights as a warning to the vessels out at sea.

If you look behind the lamp post in right-hand side of the image you will see the rising conveyor gallery that carried the iron ore and coke breeze up to the surge bins in the building immediately to the left of the lamp post. The mixed ore and breeze was then conveyed to the building to the left again to be sintered and sent to the nearby blast furnaces of the South Durham Steel and Iron Company. 

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Close up showing the date of 1839. What remained of the High Light was dismantled and re-erected at Hartlepool Marina.

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Two men working on a roll of steel from the steelworks.

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Machinery in the steelworks.

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Machinery in the steelworks.

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Machinery in the steelworks.

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Machinery in the steelworks.

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Machinery in the Steelworks.

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Machinery in the steelworks.

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Machinery from the steelworks.

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Two men working with steel plates.

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Machinery in the steelworks.

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Machinery in the steelworks.

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Machinery in the steelworks.

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Machinery in the steelworks. Workers can be seen in the picture.

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Man operating a rolling machine in the steelworks.

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Machinery in the steelworks in the 1940s

Image shows the Steelworks' Bridge and the derelict offices in Mainsforth Terrace taken in the mid 1980s. The steps to the bridge are just out of sight on the left.

The photograph has been taken with the photographer standing just inside where the steelworks gate was located. 

The derelict offices through the bridge where the offices of South Durham Steel Iron Co.