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p - LOCAL STUDIES PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION

Reference Number	p/75
Title	Round Oak Steel Works Ltd., Brierley Hill
Description	View of Nos. 1 and 2 open-top cold blast furnaces about 1938. A narrow gauge railway served the site. One of the wagons can be seen in the foreground. When the furnace was tapped, the liquid iron was run into the sand beds, on the right, for cooling. (caption on rear of picture mount)
Date	c1938
Term	Steel industry
Term	Industrial facilities
Format	Photograph
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AccessStatus	Open
Level	Item
AdminHistory	On the 17 December 1936, Round Oak Iron & Steel Works Ltd became simply, Round Oak Steel Works Ltd, but in 1967, the Iron & Steel Act brought 90% of British steelmaking into the public sector. Round Oak Steel Works Ltd then became part of the British Steel Corporation.

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates
DS/UK/807	Brierley Hill, Staffordshire, UK; Round Oak Steel Works Ltd; 1936 - 1967	1936 - 1967

Places

Code	Set
NA451	Brierley Hill/Staffordshire

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