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Steelworks

Once, Teesside had 40,000 steelworkers

Teesside's history in steel

It was the ironstone in the Cleveland Hills that made Teesside what it is today. Now, much of the industry and employment it generated is gone, but the British Steel Archive on that time is still growing.

Teesside's steel industry was born in the 1850s when iron ore was discovered in the Cleveland Hills near Eston.

In the blink of an eye, Teesside underwent a massive expansion. In its heyday, the steelworks employed more than 40,000 people.

The steelworks were nationalised in 1967 and became the British Steel Corporation. Resources were concentrated into one blast furnace at Redcar.

In 1988, the corporation became British Steel, in 1999, it merged with Dutch company Hoogevens to become Corus. Hundreds of workers took voluntary redundancy or early retirement, while thousands more were made redundant over the years.

In 2007, Corus was bought by the Indian company, Tata, and today around 2,000 staff and 800 contractors still work on the Redcar site.

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