Shelton Iron and Steel Works, Fowlea Valley, Stoke-on-Trent

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Date:May 1964

Description:This photograph was taken from the Emerson Road area of Cobridge looking south down the Fowlea Valley. The foreground was once part of the old Grange Colliery which supplied the steel works using the Grange Branch railway. Beyond are the chimneys, tips and furnaces of Shelton Iron and Steel Works, most of which were cleared to make way for the 1986 Garden Festival.

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Shelton Iron and Steel Works, Fowlea Valley, Stoke-on-Trent

This photograph was taken from the Emerson Road area of Cobridge looking south down the Fowlea Valley. ...

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Steel Works Mining & Quarrying Metal Production & Working Manufacturing Landscape & Aerial Views Industrial Buildings Business, Trade & Industry Buildings, Architecture, Monuments

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Creators: Mr Bert Bentley - Creator

Image courtesy of: Stoke on Trent City Archives.

Donor ref:SD1480/125-11 (204/35781)

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