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Colour Photograph - steel grinding machine in operation in large work shed

Grinder 5 at work

Colour Photograph - close up of cooled molten metal splash on rusty metal

Deseaming fash

Colour Photograph - steel billet bars laid together in outdoor storage area to cool

Cooling Banks II

Colour Photograph - side view of white hot steel passing on production line with general workshop view behind

Drive side view between Stand 3 & 4

Colour Photograph - worker in safety clothing standing in doorway of brick building bearing safety warning signage on either side

Garry White on the Hot Side

Colour Photograph - portrait of three steel workers in protective clothing with burning acetylene torches

Neil Hall, Nigel Hearth and Pat Gribben

Colour Photograph - worker in red overalls, goggles and white safety helmet doing equipment maintenance on industrial machinery with a white and lilac patina

Colin Busby

Colour Photograph - overhead electromagnetic crane operator moving steel

Crane operator moving billets

Colour Photograph - worker in red trousers and black top leaning on two grey filing cabinets on which several monitors have been placed

Jim Gray

Colour Photograph - control pulpits

De-manned Pulpit

Colour Photograph - portrait of a worker in white overalls and safety helmet and black gauntlets with a large black smear over the front of the overalls

Pete Jasjew

Colour Photograph - view from inside operator's pulpit showing monitor inside and red hot steel outside

De-manned pulpit cabin

Colour Photograph - white hot steel passing through heavy rollers

Diamond Box Pass

Colour Photograph - steel worker at work in control pulpit looking down on shop floor

Gul Sheharyar

Colour Photograph - two workers standing on steel bars, one using portable measuring instrument while the other sprays the metal with a water jet

Ultra Sonic Testing

Colour Photograph - steel mill worker inspecting a flame emanating from a piece of equipment into a protective cowl

Carl Mason

Colour Photograph - red paint pot standing on base heavily adorned with multicoloured paint drips

Paint pot on Guarding

Colour Photograph - close up of purple and white painted steel billet ends with computer printed stock labels stuck to them

Painted and Labelled Billet Ends

Colour Photograph - cut ends of stacked steel billets each with a pale pink x painted on it

Process Bay 2

Colour Photograph - industrial machinery control panel with labelled buttons and lamps on a metal fascia

Soaker Lid Controls II

Colour Photograph - steel worker at work in control pulpit wearing a yellow t shirt that reveals a tattooed right arm

Paul Terry in Cooling Bank Pulpit

Colour Photograph - portrait of steel works plant manager at his desk with a similar black and white portrait of an earlier manager behind him

Nick J. Bates - Plant Manager

Colour Photograph - steel works chimneys smoking under a heavy cloudy sky

Scunthorpe Steel Works

Colour Photograph - drive wheels of freight locomotive affectionately named the soaker bullit by a grafitti writer

Locomotive 51 - 'Soaker Bullit'

Colour Photograph - freight locomotive pulling cars loaded with steel

Locomotive 51 approaching Soaker Bay

Colour Photograph - freight locomotive pulling cars loaded with steel - a red suited driver standing on its gangway beside the engine housing

Locomotive Operator

Colour Photograph - railway cars loaded with steel entering the steelworks shed

Blooms entering Soaker Bay I

Colour Photograph - cars loaded with steel entering the steelworks shed

Blooms entering Soaker Bay II

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