Norfolkred1
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Following on from the ICI thread. Only spent 18 months on Lackenby in the Rod Mill doing a JPT job. Ended up doing slinging and crane driving before the strike in 79.
Sword, were you with Davy McKee during the construction of the RBF.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.
Rod Mill where I worked was next door and long gone.2 of my immediate family members still work in the finishing end of the beam mill
Is it still deafening there?2 of my immediate family members still work in the finishing end of the beam mill
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 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.
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.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.