This cutting was part of the article with the previous image, copyright Evening Gazette 20th June 1972. As usual the Gazette writer has forgotten that without the Steel Works ”scar” there would be no village, just a group of farms and outbuildings, and the coastal outline would have changed dramatically due to coastal erosion (Skinningrove used to tip slag over the cliff edge at Cattersty) and he wouldn’t be talking about the new Finishing Department anyway!
Image courtesy of Colin Hart.
my Father was killed at this Blast Furnace-Declared dead on arrival at Middlesboro Hospital.