Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron & Coal Co.

<p>The Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron &amp; Coal Company based in South Wales, founded in 1790 was the largest tinplate producer in the country until it's closure in 2002.</p>

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Ebbw Vale Open Hearth Furnaces, 1960s.

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blast furnaces at Clydach Ironworks, 1813

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Bessemer Converters - one of the first two installations in Britain

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Bessemer converter

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Station Terrace, Cwm's first major shopping centre, in 1913.

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750-ton hot metal receiver in the Bessemer Steel Works

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Digging for coal at Llangynidr Road during the 1926 miner's lockout.

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On 30 October 1929 the works were closed. In 1936 they were demolished.

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Coal mining and its landscape, Waunlwyd, 1950s

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An air view of the works in August 1957

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The Double Reduction Mill installed in 1978 produced very thin strip steel for making drinks cans

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Demolition of the blast furnaces, August 1978.

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The no 2 electrolytic tinplating line was the fastest in the world when installed in 1961.

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Fettling an open hearth steel furnace at Ebbw Vale in about 1962.

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Abercarn Colliery site in the 1970's

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Underground timbering competition at Cwm Betterment Society Carnival 1956

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The new works started production in 1938 and prosperity returned to the town of Ebbw Vale.

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The new stripmill produced high quality strip steel at 20 miles per hour

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In 1929 a new 1,500 ton hot metal receiver, then the largest in the world, was installed.

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Ebbw Vale's inland location necessitated a huge fleet of railway trucks to haul iron ore from the Newport wharves to the furnaces

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The Roughing Mill at the Steel Works.

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The new Nos. 4 and 5 blast furnaces at Victoria produced 2,750 tons a week each.

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On St David's day 1927, 52 miners at Marine Colliery were killed in an explosion.

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On St David's day 1927, 52 miners at Marine Colliery were killed in an explosion.

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During the industrial disputes of the 1920s and the depression of the 1930s jazz bands provided fun and just as important, kept up spirits.

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The Prince of Wales during his visit to Victoria No 5 pit in 1918.

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Pit Bottom. Marine Colliery, Cwm, c.1907.

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In 1907 the company built a third brickworks and production reached 14 million a year.

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The company owned four wharves at Newport to import iron ore and pit props and to export iron and steel

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The Smith Shop in the Engineering Department.

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Victoria Foundry, rebuilt in 1902, produced 18,000 tons of castings a year.

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2. In 1907 the company owned 524 coke ovens and was producing 200,000 tons of coke a year.

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The tapping hole of the

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Ten hours output of steel billets from the Bessemer Steel Works.

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A new American design blast furnace was built at Victoria in 1903.

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Two open-hearth steel furnaces were built in 1898, followed by a further three in 1905-06.

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In 1897 a spring making shop was built to make railway carriage springs.

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Cardiff Docks, early twentieth century

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Cardiff Docks, early twentieth century

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The shaft of Victoria No. 5 (Prince of Wales) Colliery.

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Waunlwyd Colliery.

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The rolling mills about 1900.

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The Bessemer steel converters kept the works going through the 1880s.

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The last act of expansion was the rebuilding of the two Victoria Furnaces in 1882.

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1. The four furnaces of Ebbw Vale were rebuilt in 1871-72, increasing production to 800 tons per week per furnace

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In 1866 the

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Cap and cone balst furnace

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Much of the company's pig iron production was converted to wrought iron in 100 puddling furnaces.

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Abersychan Ironworks shown here in 1866 was bought by the Ebbw Vale Company in 1852.

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Tredegar Iron Company's locomotive 'St David' in 1854.

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4. The Ebbw Vale Company built many rows of homes for its workers, Gantra Row, intended for colliers, accommodated one family in the upper two floors of each house and another in the basement.

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No. 6 pit, Victoria, sank in 1838 provided coke for the Victoria Ironworks

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The earliest coal and ironstone mines were

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Holing in the Gwern Y Cae Seam, Sirhowy No. 7 Pit, 1898.

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Marine Colliery, 1907: Coke for the furnaces

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