Gantry cable Heavy industrial machinery

Heavy industrial machinery

Basic oxygen steelmaking was introduced at the steelworks in 1972 in 200/250 tonne vessels

1 blast furnace was blown in on 29 August 1928

which operated continuously from 1903 until May 1999

The factory at Nancarrow Avenue

Gantry cable Heavy industrial machineryRusting steel beams and concrete uprights form the gantry at Box Hill Brickworks, a structure once integral to moving materials across the site. The brickworks operated under several owners from 1884, closing permanently in August 1988. What remains today retains the physical evidence of a production process largely unchanged since the early twentieth century. Part of the Box Hill Brickworks series.