Should the blast furnace be saved?

I was on the shift in the main control room that blew RBF in in 1979- It is part of history and I suppose in a small way so am I. But, as much as I am all for preserving our heritage and archeology we cannot live in the past. The land can be used for other things (albeit at great expense due to the clean up required)
 
They are only talking about keeping the blast furnace, a tiny building that will be self sufficient and no way will it be a detriment of the area. We have a proud history, we should try keep a little bit of it.
 
rob_fmttm said:
But the whole area is a legacy of the steel industry. Stickton was a smsll town before iron and steel for most of its history Norton and Yarm were more significant.
As a gateway to the Tees it can be an attractor for growth.
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Rob I absolutely take your gist but like I touched on earlier other cities/conurbations have remoulded themselves and when you go into cities like Manchester, Liverpool , Leeds and even Newcastle , they’re unrecognisable from 30 years ago .

People have moved on and I don’t think it particularly impresses ( non Teessiders ) what we did generations ago .
If you go to Pittsburgh in the States you’d never believe they were the USA version of us as their steel epicentre . The place is bustling .

Think of all the money people ,billionaires never mind millionaires that have visited Riverside over the years and I bet they get away from Teesside as quick as they can with our landscape ( another debate ).

We’re still harping on about that big lump of concrete that is Dorman Long tower . The Sydney Bridge testifies to our history . Pull the things down and impress the new generations . That’s my opinion anyway .
 
Get rid. Erect some kind of sculpture to commemorate what the steel industry once meant to the area.
 
Stockton have done well with its regeneration of the riverside area and baron land around the River. We at least should be making a start and sell the scrap to China.
 
rob_fmttm said:
But the whole area is a legacy of the steel industry. Stickton was a smsll town before iron and steel for most of its history Norton and Yarm were more significant.
As a gateway to the Tees it can be an attractor for growth.
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How is a rusty hulk an attractor and who to?
 
TheLodger said:
First of all, Ben isn't doing such a great job, the money coming into our are4a was agreed before he was elected and whoever got in will have had the same money. ben has wasted a huge % of the money he got by buying the hugely loss making airport, this year at least another £3m of our budget was gobbled up by the airport, and a minimum of that amount will be lost every year for the foreseeable. Bens office, which has only been open for 4 years, is now the most expensive political office in the North to run, he employs more of his mates and cronies than any combined mayor in the country. His job was to bring development to Teesside and as of today we have less than we had the day he was elected, we also have more unemployed than today than he was elected, and even if you remove those that lost their jobs because of Corona, we still had more unemployed in Feb last year than the day he was elected.

He can talk a good game, some people just believe the total nonsense he talks, he has the Northern Echo stitched up and the Gazette, he did that by employing the staff, therefor having mates of mates still in charge.
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I know you think he is a con job but you must admit he is a lesson to local Labour representatives in looking like you are trying hard on behalf of the local people.
 
Borobarmy said:
Rob I absolutely take your gist but like I touched on earlier other cities/conurbations have remoulded themselves and when you go into cities like Manchester, Liverpool , Leeds and even Newcastle , they’re unrecognisable from 30 years ago .

People have moved on and I don’t think it particularly impresses ( non Teessiders ) what we did generations ago .
If you go to Pittsburgh in the States you’d never believe they were the USA version of us as their steel epicentre . The place is bustling .

Think of all the money people ,billionaires never mind millionaires that have visited Riverside over the years and I bet they get away from Teesside as quick as they can with our landscape ( another debate ).

We’re still harping on about that big lump of concrete that is Dorman Long tower . The Sydney Bridge testifies to our history . Pull the things down and impress the new generations . That’s my opinion anyway .
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Further to my above post , It’s like blacksmiths setting up monuments for horse shoe manufacturing next to current petrol filling stations . It’s pointless , people wouldn’t notice and things have moved on .
 
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