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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some wear to cover but overall a nice copy. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> IN 1974 at the time of local government reorganisation the Municipal Borough of Scunthorpe was the largest town in North Lindsey known throughout the world for its latest contribution to the British steel industry the giant Anchor Works and looking to a prosperous future in steel. Rail marshalling yards a direct link to an ore terminal at Immingham nineteen miles away and a constant stream of heavy lorries carrying steel products to other areas betokened heavy industry on a huge scale. This was a far cry from the Scunthorpe of 130 years before. Scunthorpe then was not even the largest of the five townships which were to make up the modern borough Ashby was and the total population of the five Crosby Scunthorpe Frodingham Brumby and Ashby at the 1851 Census was a mere 1.245 The Steel Corporation had selected Scunthorpe for major development for the production of steel because of the existing facilities the availability of land and the nearness of a deep-water port capable of handling the largest bulk ore-carriers for by then little of the local ore was used more than 100000 tonnes of ore was to be needed each week. By 1974 Scunthorpe had two sources of power readily available North Sea gas and electricity; the nearest power station was across the Trent at Keadby while supporting industries such as the BOC plant were set up for the new oxygen steel processes. Nevertheless Scunthorpe was not a typical industrial area: it was an isolated industrial island in the midst of an agricultural sea. Despite the rail link which had first been created across the Trent in 1866 for the iron-ore traffic the east-west motorway link was still in the planning stage and the Humber had been cut off from the rest of the country by the barrier of the Trent Bridge just begun. (SP)