Steel Works rail rolling line in Workington video
Steel Works rail rolling line in Workington video Workington produced steel for 125 years culminating in Corus creating annually enough rail to run from Workington to Istanbul along with 400,000 steel sleepers made in the plant. Daily 1000 tons of steel blooms were delivered from the latest steel works in the North East to Workington […]
Sir Henry Bessemer a Tribute for Steel & Rail at Workington Cumbria Video
Workington Steel & Rail from Bessemer’s Convertor Sir Henry Bessemer A Tribute to the Inventor Sir Henry Bessemer was a prolific inventor born in 1813. His genius created machines for production of glass, print, sugar and an eccentric anti rolling device for passenger ships. In the Crimean war he invented the rifled bore for accurately […]
Steel Making by Bessemer Convertor at Workington Cumbria video
Steel Making by Bessemer Convertor at Workington Cumbria Sir Henry Bessemer created a new process for making steel and his earliest Bessemser Converters were sited at Workington and Millom Cumbria UK. West Cumbria is blessed with coal, iron ore and limestone so iron making became well established at Workington and Millom with ships, locos and […]
Town life street scenes shops Photo Gallery
Street scenes in towns, shops, way of life Streets, shops and normal life in the towns and villages of Cumbria Ambleside Possible Street With Centaur Cycles H J Croft Motor Works Garage Ambleside Queens Hotel Street Celebration With Women Children Flowers Car And Hand Cart In Street Outside Breeches Maker 1910s Cars Parked On Street […]
Lowca U Boat Photo Gallery
Lowca shelled by German U Boat In World War 1 a German U Boat surfaced off the West Cumbrian coast and shelled the important industrial works at Lowca and Whitehaven Lowca Submarine Daily Mail Sept 1 1915 Painting Of Submarine Shelling Lowca Lowca Huns Dastardly Deeds In War 1915 Lowca Latest In Germ Hun Frightfulness […]
Children School Photo Gallery
Children School Children at school, at play, in the countryside of Cumbria Ambleside Queens Hotel Street Celebration With Women Children Flowers Children And Band In Cobbled Village Square Alston Children Dancing Children Group Of Shabby 1930 To 1960 Children Hens Children In Fancy Dress For Coronation 1953 Children In River Petteril Carlisle 1890 To 1899 […]
Women Land Army Photo Gallery
Women Land Army World War 2 Dig For Victory campaign included the Women’s Land Army Hullock Annie Land Army Girl 1943 Land Army Annie Hullock with dog 1943 Land Army Land Army 2 Land Army W Calf Land Army W Pig Women Land Army Armband Back Women Land Army Armband 3 Women Land Army Armband […]
Farming Rural Photo Gallery
Farming and Rural Life Farming and rural ways of life in Cumbria Modern Farm Farm Equipment At Fair Farm House Farmer Farmer Period Clothes 01 Farmer Period Costume 02 Farming Auction Farming Hay Raking Family Farming Hay Sled Horse Collars Farming Gear Auction Mart Sheep Auction Mart Sheep Being Auctioned 1985 Broughton Moor WW2 Munitions […]
Mines Quarries Iron Steel Photo Gallery
Mines Quarries Iron Steel Gallery Extraction of Cumbrian mineral resources, and industry for extraction and processing. Clifton Pit Miner Clogs On Miners 1900 4 P16 Clogs On Miners 1900 MM4 P16 Clogs On Miners 1900 MM4 P16 TEXT Coal Miner Female Sally Madge Devon Miners Migrating To Cumbria TEXT Haematite Mine Logo Hodbarrow Millom Mine […]
Transport Photo Gallery
Transport Gallery Transport used in Cumbria, horse and cart, charabanc, locos, trains, cars trucks Car 1910 Car And Hand Cart In Street Outside Breeches Maker 1910s Car And People 1920s Car By Lake 1920 Car Charabanc Outside Tatters Garage Car Damlier Charabanc Car Damlier Charabanc On Kirkstone Pass Car Fells Car Humber Frnt Left Car […]