Hi, I'm a musician from County Durham. I'm creating a music video for a track I've written and wondered whether you'd allow me to use a few seconds from your brilliant video. I would credit you in the video end credits. I should add that I make no money from the music. Thanks John.
I heard the bang of the demolition charges across the bay in Seaton Carew.I'd have gone out to watch had I known about it.Still the big cylinder tower remains.
🥸I wish I knew what I'm looking at. What did it do? And why would it? And how did it do it? They look like some kind of post-apocalyptic monsters, forever frozen in time. And now I'm afraid I can't sleep tonight. What if..?
It was part of the process to make steel , lots of jobs were lost when it shut down (china at the time was making steel at a loss, so it couldn't compete)
It's a blast furnace for making pig iron. Coke, iron ore, and limestone would be fed in through the top, while a "blast" of hot air was forced in through the bottom. Once the iron ore had been smelted into liquid pig iron, the iron would be tapped from the bottom of the furnace before being transported to a basic oxygen furnace, where excess carbon would be burnt off, turning it into steel.
