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British Steel, Round Oak Steelworks, Brierley Hill

D-EXP/P/I32/227 26 Sep 1990 Wolverhampton Archives

The Minister for Tourism, Viscount Ullswater visited various tourist sports in Dudley, including the redeveloped Merry Hill shopping centre site, the Waterfront development, Dudley Zoo and Castle, and the Black Country Living Musum. Keith Cheetham is quot

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Enterprise Steel Productions Ltd, Pensnett trading estate, Cradley Heath

D-EXP/P/I31/41 25 Jan 1984 Wolverhampton Archives

Seven steelworkers were made redundant and set up their own company, thanks to help from the Black Country Co-operative Development Company and the Manpower Services Commission. The photograph shows from left Keith Hill, Len Longmore, Pat Holden, Stan Hom

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Penn Hall School, Vicarage Road, Penn, Wolverhampton

D-EXP/P/S13P/2 20 Oct 1989 Wolverhampton Archives

A team from the steel company LB Structures in Spring Road, Ettingshall raised money in the Bridgnorth raft race to build an adventure playground for the special school. Alan Stoll is quoted. The photograph shows Manjit Purewal and Lyndsey Mason receiving

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Seamless Tubes Ltd, Wednesfield

D-EXP/P/I29/49 28 Feb 1990 Wolverhampton Archives

A team of Japanese engineers from the Kawasaki Steel Corporation visiting to commission new monitoring equipment. Pictured are (from left), Mark Dimmock, Chikao Kawahara, Toshiaki Kasuya, Paul Groves, Norio Knoya and Yukio Muraoka.

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Dinsdale Limited, construction, Dudley

D-EXP/P/I39/39 31 Jul 1984 Wolverhampton Archives

A group of ex-steelworkers from Round Oak formed their own company after graduating from a retraining course run by Lloyds British of Cradley Road, Netherton. Paradise, Dudley, and Dudley Council are mentioned. Jack Cooper is quoted, and the photograph in

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Oak Steels Ltd, Union Street, Bilston

D-EXP/P/I45/1 4 Apr 1977 Wolverhampton Archives

the firm had developed a purpose-built metallurgical laboratory. The photograph shows John Moseley using a gantry crane to load bar shears for cutting into required lengths

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PPG Industries (UK) Ltd, paint spraying and coatings, Ladywood

D-EXP/P/I45/37 2 Jul 1992 Wolverhampton Archives

The firm unveiled a new training school, set up by PPG Industries (UK) Ltd. to train workers in paint straying techniques. British Steel and the City Council are mentioned. The photograph shows John Richards (right) and Councillor Albert Bore (left).

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Round Oak steelworks

D-EXP/P/I48/30 6 Dec 1977 Wolverhampton Archives

Old displays built for an exhibition rounded up by historian Keith Gale (right) and given to Ian Walden (left) of the Black Country Living Museum by Tony Wilkes (centre), featuring work the rolling mills did for customers in the 1920s and 1930s, and a cor

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Southdown Materials Testing, Tansey Green Trading Estate, Pensnett

D-EXP/P/I29/68 17 Jun 1991 Wolverhampton Archives

Opening of one of the most advanced purpose-built materials testing laboratories in the UK, by parent company Southdown X-Ray Services. The photograph shows Stephen Southall monitoring a tensile test on a steel bar using the Universal Test Machine.