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Ten hours output of steel billets from the Bessemer Steel Works.

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The tapping hole of the

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2. In 1907 the company owned 524 coke ovens and was producing 200,000 tons of coke a year.

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Victoria Foundry, rebuilt in 1902, produced 18,000 tons of castings a year.

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The Smith Shop in the Engineering Department.

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The company owned four wharves at Newport to import iron ore and pit props and to export iron and steel

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In 1907 the company built a third brickworks and production reached 14 million a year.

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Pit Bottom. Marine Colliery, Cwm, c.1907.

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The Prince of Wales during his visit to Victoria No 5 pit in 1918.

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During the industrial disputes of the 1920s and the depression of the 1930s jazz bands provided fun and just as important, kept up spirits.

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On St David's day 1927, 52 miners at Marine Colliery were killed in an explosion.

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On St David's day 1927, 52 miners at Marine Colliery were killed in an explosion.

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The new Nos. 4 and 5 blast furnaces at Victoria produced 2,750 tons a week each.

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The Roughing Mill at the Steel Works.

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Ebbw Vale's inland location necessitated a huge fleet of railway trucks to haul iron ore from the Newport wharves to the furnaces

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In 1929 a new 1,500 ton hot metal receiver, then the largest in the world, was installed.

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The new stripmill produced high quality strip steel at 20 miles per hour

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The new works started production in 1938 and prosperity returned to the town of Ebbw Vale.

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Underground timbering competition at Cwm Betterment Society Carnival 1956

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Abercarn Colliery site in the 1970's

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Fettling an open hearth steel furnace at Ebbw Vale in about 1962.

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The no 2 electrolytic tinplating line was the fastest in the world when installed in 1961.

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Demolition of the blast furnaces, August 1978.

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The Double Reduction Mill installed in 1978 produced very thin strip steel for making drinks cans

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Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron & Coal Co.

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An air view of the works in August 1957

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Coal mining and its landscape, Waunlwyd, 1950s

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On 30 October 1929 the works were closed. In 1936 they were demolished.

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Digging for coal at Llangynidr Road during the 1926 miner's lockout.

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750-ton hot metal receiver in the Bessemer Steel Works

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