Ebbw Vale (/ˈɛbuː veɪl/; Welsh: Glynebwy) is a town at the head of the valley formed by the Ebbw Fawr tributary of the Ebbw River in Wales. It is the...
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Ebbw Vale Steelworks was an integrated steel mill located in Ebbw Vale, South Wales. Developed from 1790, by the late 1930s it had become the largest steel...
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route continued to be used to carry freight to and from the Corus steelworks in Ebbw Vale, until its closure in 2002. Proposals to re-open the existing freight...
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Talbot Steelworks, they invested in all three remaining tinplate works within the newly formed South Wales group: Trostre, Felindre and Ebbw Vale. With...
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conversion of two houses (one belonging to the Ebbw Vale Steelworks manager and one belonging to the Steelworks surgeon) in 1900. It joined the National Health...
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Mineral Railway, mainly to Newport for onward transportation to the Ebbw Vale Steelworks. The West Somerset Railway also served the town and port bringing...
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most of the festivals. Ebbw Vale was chosen as waste land which had been the British Steel Corporation's Ebbw Vale Steelworks, closed and partially demolished...
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built at a cost of £53 million and stands on the site of the former Ebbw Vale Steelworks, opened in October 2010. It was the first NHS hospital to be built...
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Port Talbot Steelworks is a steel mill in Port Talbot, Wales. Over 4,000 people worked at the plant until the last blast furnace shut down on 1st October...
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0°36′28″W / 53.581944°N 0.607860°W / 53.581944; -0.607860 (Scunthorpe Steelworks) The Iron and Steel Industry in Scunthorpe was established in the mid...
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tin plate, the first strip mill in Great Britain having been opened at Ebbw Vale in the late 1930s. A major expansion of Colvilles, the largest steel manufacturer...
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Llanwern steelworks is located in Llanwern, east of the City of Newport, South Wales. Built for Richard Thomas & Baldwins Ltd, the works was originally...
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The Teesside Steelworks was a large steelworks that formed a continuous stretch along the south bank of the River Tees from the towns of Middlesbrough...
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site in Ebbw Vale and was renamed Gwent Archives. The Gwent Archives are housed in the Grade II* listed office buildings of Ebbw Vale Steelworks. The red...
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locomotives they purchased) included Manchester Ship Canal (3), Ebbw Vale Steelworks (2), and Huntley and Palmers (1). In October 2015, the British model...
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Blaenavon Ironworks Brymbo Steelworks Dowlais Ironworks Ebbw Vale Steelworks Llanwern steelworks Panteg Steel Works Port Talbot Steelworks Trostre Steelworks...
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The Round Oak Steelworks was a steel production plant in Brierley Hill, West Midlands (formerly Staffordshire), England. It was founded in 1857 by Lord...
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Ebbw Vale Parkway railway station (Welsh: Gorsaf reilffordd Parcffordd Glyn Ebwy) is a station on the Ebbw Valley Railway in Wales. The station opened...
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division – primary production sold to Aleris 2006 Ebbw Vale Steelworks, integrated steel mill located in Ebbw Vale, South Wales. Iron and steel making ceased...
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RTB Ebbw Vale Football Club are a Welsh association football club based in the town of Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, South Wales. The team was founded in 1951...
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Sheerness Steelworks was a steel plant located at Sheerness, on the Isle of Sheppey, in Kent, England. The plant opened in 1971 and produced steel via...
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566483°N 0.906564°W / 54.566483; -0.906564 (Skinningrove steelworks) Skinningrove steelworks is a steel mill in Skinningrove, North Yorkshire, England...
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Steel Corporation, which inherited the additional tinplate works at Ebbw Vale Steelworks. By 1970, Felindre works employed 2,500 people and was producing...
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The Brymbo Steel Works was a former large steelworks in the village of Brymbo near Wrexham, Wales. In operation between 1796 and 1990, it was significant...
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The Clydebridge Steelworks, also known as Clydebridge Works, is a steel works in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The plant opened in 1877. The works made...
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Dai Davies (politician) (category People from Ebbw Vale)
the age of 16, Davies worked in the electrical department at the Ebbw Vale Steelworks for 26 years; he was a senior trade union shop steward for over 15...
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Dowlais Ironworks (category Ironworks and steelworks in Wales)
The Dowlais Ironworks was a major ironworks and steelworks located at Dowlais near Merthyr Tydfil, in Wales. Founded in the 18th century, it operated until...
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Shelton Bar (category Ironworks and steelworks in England)
6 km2) major steelworks in the city of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. In its heyday, Shelton Bar employed 10,000 in the steelworks, had five coal...
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of politics." Every Valley was recorded in situ in the former steelworks town of Ebbw Vale, in South Wales. The band made use of a community hall formerly...
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1943; closed 30 April 1962; Ebbw Vale Steelworks; Victoria; opened by August 1852; closed 30 April 1962; reopened as Ebbw Vale Parkway 6 February 2008; still...
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