What is the red dust from steel works?
Delia Heidenreich
2025-05-21 03:07:06
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The dust was actually airborne iron oxide from the steel-making plant. The Consett steelworks provided jobs for 6,000 workers at its peak in the 1960s. The town becoming renowned for the pall of red dust that hung over it. The name Consett was synonymous with iron and steel for decades. Consett was the town that made the steel for Blackpool Tower and Britain’s most famous nuclear submarines. The Consett Iron Company was established in 1840 and steel dominated Consett visually in terms of its landscape.
Melyna Lynch
2025-05-09 17:16:11
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From Snod’s edge to Healyfield and Castleside to Rowley, the red dust from the monsters belly in Consett itself was ever omnipresent. The men that cared for and powered the molten steel belching creature, making their daily journeys from their homes in Delves, Leadgate, Blackhill the Grove and Shotley Bridge deep into its dark heart at berry edge, where the only light often was the deep orange flickering glow of the furnaces themselves. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, the monster belches out enormous quantities of molten steel, which the hard-working men of the Derwent valley hammer, squash and bash into so many different shapes, the mind boggles trying to keep track of it all, and the noise… oh my word, how ANYONE can concentrate and know what they are doing amongst all that noise. The red dust spews forth from the massive chimneys, you can see the beast breathing, every cloud of smoke an exhale of one breath, the people up in town feel safe, even if the air is thick to breathe sometimes. The sparks, the fire, the raw red heat of metal girders that have not yet been fully born, it’s as if the monster makes it’s children to order, and shapes them to be the adults they will become in the real world, before they even leave it’s womb.
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