Sutton-in-Ashfield - Steelworks on Hamilton Road

Image: © Dave Bevis Taken: 20 Feb 2009

I am indebted to Robert Holland for the following information about this photo: "Close to the camera are the offices of Stokes, Taylor and Shaw and the buildings beyond are their workshops. STS were a firm of structural steel fabricators who supplied Bailey Bridges to the army throughout and after the 1945 war (up till 1950, I think), General structural steelwork for building structures, pressure vessels, heavy mechanical devices for handling colliery mine cars to several coal fields. But from 1948, and for several years thereafter, their principal products were for the new power stations (eg Connahs Quay, Chester, Drakelow, Staffordshire) and these included large gas ducts (sometimes of unimaginably complex geometry) and tubed internal walls for enormous furnaces made in the larger sheds which "appear" to cross Hamilton Road in the photograph. They were one of the last firms to employ a blacksmith and he fashioned wrought iron hangers from which the ducts were hung."

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