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History of Consett Steelworks

Connecting the community with the past, sharing memories for the future

  • Welcome to the History of Consett Steelworks
  • About
    • Meet the Team
  • Timeline
  • Current and future events
  • Previous events
    • A Woman’s Place: a celebration for International Women’s Day 2021
      • A Woman’s Place: Gallery
      • A Woman’s Place: Film Club
      • A Woman’s Place: Linda Bankier
      • A Woman’s Place: The Women’s Banner Group
      • A Woman’s Place: Jennifer Godfrey
      • A Woman’s Place: Victoria Stevens
      • A Woman’s Place: Glenda Young
    • Forged over 140 Years Day 1
    • Forged over 140 Years Day 2
    • Forged over 140 Years Day 3
    • Forged over 140 Years Day 4
    • Forged over 140 Years Day 5
    • Forged over 140 Years Day 6
    • Forged over 140 Years Day 7
    • Forged over 140 Years Day 8
    • Film Club Matinee
  • Event recordings
    • Forged over 140 Years: recordings
  • Consett Stories: in their own words
    • A Life in Letters
    • Learning the Ropes: Alan Swinburne’s story continued
    • Rivers of Steel that Transformed the World:
    • From Hot Fettler to Home Guard to Hownsgill:
    • Walking the Works with his Grandad:
    • History in the making:
    • Christmas celebrations on the Western Front:
    • Steel by Day, Music by Night:
    • Family life with and without the steelworks:
    • Dad’s world in miniature
    • Coming from the outside to record Consett
    • The 1950 gas accident
    • Life on the Tyne Dock to Consett railway
  • Poems and Fiction Stories about Consett
    • A Consett Monster Story
    • Consett Rocks
    • Stop and Listen
    • Tommy’s Tiddler (Fishing the Divvy)
    • Shona Polony (A Consett Legend)
    • Blackhill 1960’s
  • Steelworks Mapping Project
  • Gallery
    • People
    • Place
    • Plant
    • Pits and associated sites
    • Transport
    • Interesting Ephemera
    • Closure
    • Legacy
  • Video links
  • Consett Iron Company Magazines
  • Contact

Latest from the HCSW blog

  • Consett Steelworks Model Pictures
  • Kenneth Davison
  • ONLINE Third Thursday Talk: The Conservation of the Consett Iron Company Locomotive Registers
  • Consett Steelworks: Old photos of the demolition of the iconic works in 1981 – then and now by Dave Morton Newcastle Chronicle Oct 2014
  • History of Consett Steelworks Talk Events for 2023

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  • April 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020

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Here the HCSW project team will add links to websites and groups for you click through to enjoy

Want to be added please send an email to historyofconsettsteelworks@gmail.com

Consett Magazine

https://consettmagazine.com/

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Project Genesis

https://project-genesis.org.uk/

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