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Sheffield lost more than 50,000 steel and engineering jobs between 1980 and 1983. British steel has reached fresh crisis since the 2008 crash, due to lower demand, rising energy prices, a strong pound and China’s alleged “steel dumping”.
Sep 30, 2022 · Fuelled by Northern grit to pivot from its traditional roots in steel and mining, the city now boasts a burgeoning scene of tech and digital start-ups, scale-ups and international businesses.
- Rachael Hesno
Jan 4, 2024 · Despite challenges, national and international buyers continue to be attracted to the quality and heritage of tools and cutlery crafted from Sheffield steel. The city’s legacy endures, evident in its surviving steelworks and the unwavering pride it holds in commemorating its rich heritage.
- “80–90 Per Cent of British Steel-Making Capacity”
- “Six Tons of Cast Steel in Around Thirty Minutes”
- “Increasingly Concentrated on Armament Production”
- “193 Firms in The City Engaged in Refining and Manufacturing Steel”
- “Firm Is Still Going Strong Today”
- “Booming Town”
- “Kept Expanding”
There was flat land beside the river for the construction and subsequent expansion of the large works and in the surrounding area for houses for the workers, who were attracted in large numbers. In addition, there was a constant supply of water from the River Don and access via the Sheffield & Rotherham Railway and its branch lines to the coking co...
The Bessemer converter made its first appearance on Carlisle Street at Bessemer’s Steel Works in 1858, in the very midst of the new steelworks with their many cementation furnaces and crucible holes. This was a radical step by its inventor Henry Bessemer following the sceptical reception of the new invention that arose from doubts about the process...
The new steelworks attracted to the east end of Sheffield a rapidly growing population. Brightside’s population trebled between 1841 and 1861 (from 10,089 to 29,818), doubled by 1881 (to 56,719) and had reached 75,000 by the end of the century. Attercliffe’s population growth was not quite on the same scale but still impressive: from 4,156 in 1841 ...
Other firms also increasingly concentrated production on specialised products. For example, Samuel Osborn’s specialised in cast steel ‘of every description from a few ounces to 15 Tons each’ and were the sole manufacturers of Mushet’s ‘special steel’ and ‘titanic steel’ used in the manufacture of specialised tools, drills and dies; Jessop’s special...
In the early 1840s George Bassett started his liquorice sweets business and by 1862 he employed 150 workers making delicious liquorice comfits, candied peel and Pontefract cakes. Later, of course, the firm ‘invented’ Liquorice Allsorts. This came about, apparently, when a ‘rep’ was visiting a customer and an assistant accidentally dropped a tray of...
Considerable expansion also took place in the retail sector as Sheffield’s population grew and grew, and by the end of the nineteenth century the retail core stretched for more than a mile from Haymarket in the north to the bottom of The Moor in the south. By the 1850s Sheffield had a number of markets across town. The Norfolk Market Hall opened in...
The first one was Cockayne’s established in 1829 by Thomas Bagshawe Cockayne and his brother William. It started as a draper’s store before becoming a large department store on Angel Street by the end of the century. Meanwhile Cole Bros (now John Lewis) was established at No. 4 Fargate (Cole’s Corner) in 1847. It was owned by three brothers – John,...
‘Steel City’ is viewed as a negative epithet, tied to industrial failure and collapse, and to images of immiserated workers and run-down back-to-back houses.
May 14, 2017 · In 1856, Henry Bessemer announced the invention of a new way of converting pig iron into steel. The Bessemer converter converted 25 tonnes of iron into steel in half an hour; it reduced the price of steel by a factor of five and greatly increased the volumes produced.
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Apr 7, 2021 · Despite Sheffield’s continuing reputation as the Steel City, manufacturing now accounts for less than 10% of the economy, compared with a public sector accounting for just over 30%. In common with most of the rest of the UK, the remainder is dominated by the private services sector.
