BSC

Also worked at BSC - on the commissioning side at Redcar Blast Furnace with the planning team as Assistant Planning Engineer on Electricals, two years of box ticking as each motor, switch & gauge had to be checked for connection, power and function before it was deemed fit for service. Pay was decent though.
 
20 years - 10 at steelmaking in Lackenby then 10 in the projects department at Steel House.
Have worked at Skinningrove, Scunny, Stocksbridge, Shotton and Port Talbot through the years.
p.s. Even though those over the other side of the Trunk Road looked down on us, I'd go back there tomorrow given a chance.
 
Some of the shifts we were on were horrendous especially the fast back. Leaving work after a 2100-0600 shift and back in for 1400 the same day, not sure how we managed to concentrate.
 
Apprentice at the Beam Mill. Furnace end, ref Mill, hot saws, then finishing end. Worked at BOS and Redcar blast on weekends also. Cracking lads had some laughs there. Filthy job especially under the cooling banks at beam Mill. My aprentices in O&G don't know there born.
 
swordtrombonefish said:
Also worked at BSC - on the commissioning side at Redcar Blast Furnace with the planning team as Assistant Planning Engineer on Electricals, two years of box ticking as each motor, switch & gauge had to be checked for connection, power and function before it was deemed fit for service. Pay was decent though.
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Sword, were you with Davy McKee during the construction of the RBF.

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Worked at Lackenby in the Computer Department.
This gave me experience to work anywhere. Married a fellow worker and moved from Teesside.
Still follow Boro
 
Started my apprenticeship at South Bank training centre in the early 80's. Spent nearly 40 years working across the entire site, form Cargo Fleet to the ROT.
Finished at the Beam Mill before early retirement.
There was a lot of awful places, BOS Plant, RBF cast house floor and Coke Ovens.
Overall it was a good place to work, plenty of characters and a good laugh. Towards the end it was less enjoyable and I was glad to get out.
 
I delivered to the Beam Mill workshop a few months ago. The gatehouse staff said 'have you been here before' er yea but it was 1979, where am I going.
 
I worked at No 12 Rod Mill in mid 70s. Then got seconded to the work study department ( time and motion) and did myself out of a job….eventually. Really enjoyed my time there but as mentioned that quick return shift off nights was a killer.
 
SocraTees said:
I worked at No 12 Rod Mill in mid 70s. Then got seconded to the work study department ( time and motion) and did myself out of a job….eventually. Really enjoyed my time there but as mentioned that quick return shift off nights was a killer.
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I was at the finishing end with Frank Niadeck (SP). I remember the Bar Pulpit being demolished by a broken overhead crane that had to pushed out of the way, it just crumbled as it was hit by the hoist.
 
I worked with Frank Gniadek (sp?) Lovely guy, also Colin Sumpton, Brian Watts the shift roller, Harry Lisle, Davy Rowe, Wally Morton the furnaceman, also remember doing a load of night shifts with the slingers from the finishing end of the rod mill. Great bunch of lads even though they were a bit resistant to what I was doing. 😄 I was doing time and motion studies.
 
SocraTees said:
I worked with Frank Gniadek (sp?) Lovely guy, also Colin Sumpton, Brian Watts the shift roller, Harry Lisle, Davy Rowe, Wally Morton the furnaceman, also remember doing a load of night shifts with the slingers from the finishing end of the rod mill. Great bunch of lads even though they were a bit resistant to what I was doing. 😄 I was doing time and motion studies.
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Used to get a lift with Frank to and from work. I left in 79 because of the strike, but ended as a slinger and crane driver. Also a guy called Sinbad and a rather effeminate Pakistani fella we called Mary. Hard work but good money if you shift fell good for O/T on the week end.
 
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