The stocks bridge is known the world over stocks bridge is a steel town and almost every family is dependent on the local steelworks in some way or other for over a hundred years they have made steel special steel for the ever-changing needs of industry men were making on in this valley fifteen hundred years ago and from their primitive workshops has grown this giant works as modern Metal Corner Brackets as any in the world today here tradition persists and alongside the presence is evidence of the part in days gone by brick lump made better homes than most while gentleman's row is reserved for the foreman of those days what memories to must linger on in honeymoon row this is the stocks bridge of today and now here come the steelworkers nearly 7,000 men and women and about half of them live in stocks which many families have been in steel for generations and local pride runs high some refer to those from nearby Barnsley as foreigners or an even less polite sir these are the men and here is the metal scrap is the basis for most Steel's. Large metal corner brackets, Metal corner brackets for wood, Heavy-duty metal corner brackets, Long metal corner brackets, Metal corner brackets Screwfix, Decorative metal corner brackets, Corner brace brackets, L brackets.

Outdoor screws Screwfix, Railway sleeper brackets, Screwfix railway sleeper brackets, Railway sleeper brackets b&q. And it's all carefully sorted this is most important the stock's bridge specializes in tailor-made Steel's the ever-increasing range of high-quality alloys back those needed for modern aircraft and atomic power plants almost every day a new boy starts learning how to make steel Roy Westwood is typical of the valley and like most of his friends spend his school days at stops bridge secondary model racking away in the pleasant but overcrowded classroom steve is in the background of all these children and they find colour in their local industry the chances are that most of them will become steelworkers like Roy or Mary them those who want to make steel their job in life will go to Belmont the Works Training Center all the boys get basic practical training that will serve them well.

Whatever they do while the staff select them for one or other of the two main groups of steelworkers craftsmen or production Outdoor Screws workers most parents want their sons to be cropped well there is a host of jobs outside still open to them if ever the need for a change should come however although much attention is paid to their selection and training the backbone of a steelworks is the production man the vast new melting shop is known locally as bag nose Cathedral Frank back nor the manager is a well-known character in the world of electric milkers near a house two of the largest arc furnaces in Europe and a single furnace can melt over 80 tons in one go production workers run these giant furnaces and ridge Siddons the first hand melter controls as much as 30,000 pounds worth of metal at very high temperatures and under tremendous power reges our York Sherman and born locally with that tremendous pride founded most people who live and work in these parts his parents were born here too.

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