The LNER Encyclopedia

I have just come across this YouTube video, which I find fascinating. It is almost 40 minutes long and I am not sure who owns the copyright, could be BTF for the first half - but these things have a habit of vanishing just as quickly as they appear, so enjoy it while you can.

Listening in 2011, parts of the commentary now seem very ironic.

http://youtu.be/js8W-_qkq5Y

Ironic indeed i was formerly employed at BSC Tinsley Park Bar Mill and its sad to see the demise of the yard. I saw most of the remaining Woodhead electrics from our viewpoint. It was a tremendous Investment getting the site and the new connections up and running now steel goes from a tiny terminal in Rotherham.

I pass the M1 Tinsley viaduct every day passed the Meadowhall shopping centre on my way to work. I had no idea of what once existed at Tinsley. There are very few Foundrys in Sheffield now and it is a very green city compared to the 1960s but is is sad that Tinsley is now know for its retail park. I hope the Brass Band music was played by the Grimesthorpe Colliery Band.

Meadowhell is where Firth Browns was. Tinsley yard ran virtually from the south end of Tinsley viaduct to the Catcliffe interchange on the right hand side if you are travelling south on the M1. That is the best way to describe the size of it, you do get glimpses of it as you travel on the motorway but most of it is hidden by banking. The site of the yard is now a distribution centre/Industrial estate with i think a couple of lines adjacent to the cutting edge which butts on to the M1.

52D wrote:Meadowhell is where Firth Browns was. Tinsley yard ran virtually from the south end of Tinsley viaduct to the Catcliffe interchange on the right hand side if you are travelling south on the M1. That is the best way to describe the size of it, you do get glimpses of it as you travel on the motorway but most of it is hidden by banking. The site of the yard is now a distribution centre/Industrial estate with i think a couple of lines adjacent to the cutting edge which butts on to the M1.

As someone who does not have a great knowledge of the area, was the Firth Brown steel works the one that was either side of a main road, Attercliffe Road springs to mind? My father used to take me to visit an old great aunt of his who lived in Brightside in the early 1960s and as a young boy brought up in the fens of Lincolnshire, this was something that I had never had any experience of.

All the tiny houses were completely black, vast pipes with steam pouring out went across the road and chimneys belching thick smoke were everywhere. It certainly was an eye opener to me.

Strang Steel Thats the other Firth Brown works on Worksop Road you are thinking of.