British Steel - private property
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British Steel - private property
Image: © Stephen McKay Taken: 6 Feb 2011
This battered old sign at the end of Stewarts Road is just about the only visible reminder that this was the site of a large steel tube works that closed in the 1980s. The Coombs Wood Works was originally opened in 1860 and for most of its working life was operated by Stewarts and Lloyds Ltd. It became part of the British Steel Corporation on nationalisation in 1968, and there is a reminder here of that organisation's stylised 'S' logo. Far from being private, the path here is marked as a public footpath.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.465365
Longitude
-2.038815