Health and Safety
The Iron and Steel industry is a heavy industry which comes with many in-built hazards, and Ravenscraig was no exception. As the industry’s working practices were modernised many safety procedures...
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Ravenscraig Social Spaces and Activities
Recollections of Ravenscraig can at times be overshadowed by the politics that surrounded it and the ill-feeling regarding its closure in 1992, but what of its social side? Many people...
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Ravenscraig Railway and other Transport
For many locals Ravenscraig seemed like an independent town of its own, particularly due to the sheer scale of the place but also because of its busy network of rail...
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Ravenscraig Hot Strip Steel Mill
As a fully ‘integrated works’ Ravenscraig possessed the facilities to produce a finished product in-house from beginning to end. The Hot Strip Mill was a vital part of that process....
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Ravenscraig Slabbing Mill
The purpose of a slabbing mill is to produce ‘slabs’ of steel which can then be processed into strip or plate steel. Before the introduction of continuous casting at Ravenscraig,...
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Steelmaking at Ravenscraig
“Steel is made by melting scrap with molten pig iron from the blast furnaces together with fluxes and oxidising materials. At Ravenscraig, steel can be made either in the open...
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Ravenscraig Ironmaking
Iron making has been a process used in Britain for almost 3,000 years. Dating back to 800 BC, the beginning of the Iron Age, many relics and remains from this...
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Ravenscraig Coke Ovens
Coking coal supplies for the Ravenscraig Coke Ovens came from several local collieries, in particular Polkemmet Colliery in West Lothian supplying 95% of its mined coal to the steelworks. After...
Ravenscraig Power Station
Situated between the vast expanse of coke ovens and the infamous gas and cooling towers, Ravenscraig Power Station was the control centre responsible for all power and fuel resources distributed...
How Steel is Made
Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon. To make steel you have to firstly make iron. Iron is made by combining iron ore, sinter and coke. These materials are...
British Steel
Having faced nationalisation in 1949 under Clement Atlee’s Labour Government, only to be returned to the private sector in 1951 by the newly elected Conservatives, Colville’s would again be renationalised...
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David Colville & Sons
David Colville Snr was born in Campbelltown in 1813. He first came to North Lanarkshire through his business partnership Colville & Grey in the form of the Clifton Iron Works...