Steel City

[Jack Black]

Thought you folks might like a weekend treat



Walker & Halls Electro Work in the 1920’s.



Sheffield’s Lower Don Valley in the 1930’s.



Hadfield’s East Hecla Works in the early 1900’s.



W T Flather’s steelworkds in the 1930’s, showing the close proximity of workplace and home for many Sheffield workers.



Workers at the end of a shift in the heart of industrial Brightside.



Bar rolling (inset) and hammer forging.



Crucible melting team.



Teeming crucible steel in the early 1900’s.



Crucible Teeming at Cammell Laird’s Work during WW1.




Rolling a locomotive axle at Camell Laird’s Works during WW1.



Producing Bessemer steel at Camell Laird’s during WW1.



A team working a steam hammer at English Steel’s River Don Works in the 1940’s.



Pattern Shop workers at Vickers Sons & Maxim Ltd, early 1900’s.



Old Sheffield grinders.



Buffer Girls.



John Thomas Ridge, Gimlet Maker, 1950’s.



Jack Stedman, File Cutter at Brown Brothers, 1950’s.



Scissor Maker in the early 1900’s.



Women Munitions Workers at Firth Brown during WW1.



A Sheffield schoolboy admires the famous Norfolk Knife made by Joseph Rodgers & Sons for the Great Exhibition in 1851.

 

[Sowbelly270]

Thanks for the look at a neat piece of history.


Have a great day,
Jeff

 

[Pipeman]

Thanks Jack, I love early photography, have collected turn of the century postcards for years. Check out the arms on those guys. Hard work.

Thanks again
Best regards

Robin

 

[shrapne1]

that Norfolk redefines erry day carry!!

 

[jakemex]

Love those foundry and mill work fotos. Thanks for the great historical post.

 

[richstag]

That is awesome! Thanks Jack

 

[sitflyer]

Wow Jack! I really love the pics of the women and men busy at their work, and that huge hammer forge!
The gent working on his scissors and the gimlet maker and file cutter are particularly charming.
Thanks for these glimpses into Sheffield's history:thumbup:

 

[bdev]

Thanks Jack, I love early photography, have collected turn of the century postcards for years. Check out the arms on those guys. Hard work.

Thanks again
Best regards

Robin

If you like early photos, check out www.shorpy.com

 

[Campbellclanman]

Great photo's Jack, always is fantastic going on one of your "virtual" tours....thank you very much kind Sir!

 

[screened porch]

Hand-cut files in the 1950s? Wow.

 

[Humppa]

Thanks for this awesome impressions ... and the great craftmanship behind the british steelindustry in the past.

Really great pics, my friend!

 

[Jack Black]

You're all very welcome gentlemen

Jack

 

[meako]

Cor!!!!

 

[jwolf90]

Great old photo's, thanks for those!!

 

[knarfeng]

Great set of photos. Thanks!

 

[smiling-knife]

Love the old photos and prints Jack. Thanks very much for posting them. I hope it's ok to add a few engravings from the 1880s.

 

[kamagong]

Here are some recent pictures from the Sheffield area. Pay attention to the third, fourth, and fifth pics where old grinding wheels were used as coping stones for walls.

- Christian

 

[CoffeeCat2112]

I could look at your pics all day, Jack. As to your the title of your post, Pittsburgh is also called "Steel City", so on a whim I looked up its sister cities. Wouldn't you know it, one of them is Sheffield!

 

[Jack Black]

Love the old photos and prints Jack. Thanks very much for posting them. I hope it's ok to add a few engravings from the 1880s.

Thanks SK. Absolutely great to see those engravings.

Here are some recent pictures from the Sheffield area. Pay attention to the third, fourth, and fifth pics where old grinding wheels were used as coping stones for walls.

- Christian

Much of the countryside, particularly to the West of Sheffield is absolutely littered with grindstones, in this case unused and in some cases unfinished. Apparently the reason for this, was that the price of French stone suddenly dropped to less than the price of English stone, and so the quarry workers were just told not to come back to work tomorrow and the stones were left where they were.

I could look at your pics all day, Jack. As to your the title of your post, Pittsburgh is also called "Steel City", so on a whim I looked up its sister cities. Wouldn't you know it, one of them is Sheffield!

That's nice to hear Blaine. I imagine that the foundry pics from old Pittsburgh wouldn't be that different to the ones from Sheffield.

 

[waynorth]

Thanks for the pics. It is nice to look at the history of the process.
The evolution of safety has occurred, and current workers have such improved conditions. Modern production is much safer, and cleaner. We owe a lot to those past workers who produced such wonderful work in lesser conditions!

And we owe a lot to those few who make such wonderful, consistent, reliable knives today!!