Return to the North

By Viking

Cloud maker

Scunthorpe is famous for its steel industry - which employed half the town before that bitch Thatcher got her hands on it.
I drive past the last remaining steel works every time I go to a service at the Sallies. Today was no exception and as I passed the tipping process was taking place and there was a loud noise I spent my childhood listening too.it also looked like the works was making the clouds :-)
Sadly only had mobile and was in the car waiting at lights, so not much of a shot.Scunthorpe as a town came into existence due to the exploitation of the local ironstone resources, and subsequent formation of iron works from the 1850s onwards. The regional population grew from 1,245 in 1851 to 11,167 in 1901 and 45,840 in 1941. During the expansion Scunthorpe expanded to include the former villages of Scunthorpe, Frodingham, Crosby, Brumby and Ashby. Scunthorpe became an urban district 1891, merged as 'Scunthorpe, Brumby and Frodingham Urban District' in 1919, and became a municipal borough in 1936.
The town appears in the Domesday Book (1086) as Escumesthorpe, which is Old Norse for "Skuma's homestead",a site which is believed to be in the town centre close to where the present-day Market Hill is located.

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