Margam Steel Works (Abbey Works) for The Steel Company of Wales Limited, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan: the number 5 blast furnace
Artist/Photographer | de Mare, Eric (1910-2002) |
Country | UK: Wales |
City | Port Talbot |
Subject Date | 1953 |
Image Date | 1961 |
View | Exterior |
Medium | Photoprint |
Library Reference | AP290/183 |
Orientation | Portrait |
Colour Info | Black and white |
Credit | Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections |
Subject | Eric de Maré: The Functional Tradition ; Steelworks |
NOTES: Margam Steel Works, originally and colloquially known as the "Abbey Works", was a modern integrated steelworks which began production in 1953, although most of the works had been built by 1951. This is one of the two new furnaces built in the 1950s. Once the new number 4 and 5 furnaces began production, the older furnaces, numbers 1 and 2 built in the 1920s, were demolished. The number 3 furnace, built in 1941, was retained as a stand-by.
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