Redcar Blast Furnace, June 2016

[R0tt3nW00d]

A bit of Wiki History:​

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Teesside Steelworks was a large steelworks located along the south bank of the River Tees between Middlesbrough and Redcar and was founded back in 1917 by Dorman Long and the steel that was produced was used to build structures including the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Tyne Bridge and the Auckland Harbour Bridge.​

The majority of the steelworks, including the Redcar blast furnace, Redcar and South Bank coke ovens and the BOS plant at Lackenby closed in 2015. The Teesside Beam Mill and some support services still operate at the Lackenby part of the site.​

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This is probably one of my all time favorite explores to date and after a couple ventures here with @-Raz- and @Hydro i found i was having too much fun just wandering around than taking pictures. After spending the night sneaking around this Goliath we podded out and caught a few z's atop the furnace adding this to the list of crazy places to sleep. ​

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Cheers for looking!!  ​

 

[Maniac]

Some nice shots of the place there, still looking good  

 

[AndyK!]

Yes, some good shots there, looks good in daylight.

 

[-Raz-]

Got some nice ones there dude! Was cool watching the sunrise from the top! 

 

[The_Raw]

That's pretty epic in daylight and lols at sleeping on top of the furnace!

 

[R0tt3nW00d]

Cheers lads! Yeah it was definitely an experience sleeping up there! 100% worth the back ache for the sunrise in the morning though!