{"id":35204,"date":"2022-12-22T16:04:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T16:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=35204"},"modified":"2022-12-20T17:33:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T17:33:47","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-doorstep-how-the-redcar-blast-furnace-helped-teesside-build-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=35204","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the doorstep\u2019: How the Redcar Blast Furnace helped Teesside build the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The demolition of the Redcar Blast Furnace will bookend a story spanning six decades, Teesside historian Dr Tosh Warwick reports through The Northern Echo.<\/em><\/h3>\n
image: for illustration – By Stuart Kerr – Corus Steel Works<\/a>, RedcarUploaded by Computerjoe, CC BY 2.0<\/em><\/h6>\n

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\u2026 a future which is already putting Teesside back on the map\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

The Northern Echo<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n

The Steel News reported how work commenced on the new blast furnace development at Redcar in 1974. The new blast furnace development was described as the centrepiece of new developments in the area, and was hailed as \u2018the start of a new era\u2019 along with the headline \u2018British Steel Builds the New Teesside\u2019.<\/p>\n

The development was part of a broader \u00a3500million development on Teesside – \u00a3400million on the Redcar ironmaking development, and \u00a3100million at the nearby Lackenby steelmaking complex \u2013 that had \u2018given the steelmen of Teesside and the British Steel Corporation the most up-to-date plant and technology\u2019.<\/p>\n

Capable of producing 10,000 tonnes of iron a day, the new blast furnace was reported as the biggest single project to be undertaken by British Steel, one of the largest blast furnaces in Europe, and ranked among the most modern in the world\u2026<\/p>\n

On 12 October 1979, with 400 people gathered on the cast house floor, Teesside managing director Derek Saul initiated the lighting up ceremony\u2026<\/p>\n

When first blown in, the blast furnace employed 437 people (in 1979, British Steel\u2019s Teesside Works employed around 19,500 people) and over the decades, has brought work for thousands of Teessiders across the generations\u2026<\/p>\n

Dr Warwick has been a key part of the independent Teesworks Heritage Taskforce. This group was established by Tees Valley Mayor Houchen and is chaired by Redcar MP Jacob Young and Kate Willard OBE. It has led comprehensive efforts to preserve memories of the site for future generations alongside Historic England, former SSI UK PR director John Baker, and former steelworkers\u2026<\/p>\n

Jacob Young, Conservative MP for Redcar and co-chair of the Teesworks Heritage Task Force, said: \u201cOur steel industry spanned 170 years and has been a major part of what it means to be from Teesside\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a future which is already putting Teesside back on the map as a global centre for industry, bringing well-paid, high-quality jobs for thousands of local people.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so it is right that we look towards that future and make progress, even if that means having to let go of some of the symbols of our proud past.\u201d<\/p>\n

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