A rather poignant shot this
What you see here is the last bastion of steel making on Teesside, this blast furnace has been here for the last 100 years and news has now been confirmed that it will shut with the loss of over 2000 jobs on site and countless numbers as a knock on effect
Around a century ago there where 99 blast furnaces along this river, all producing steel that built the world, with this final closure it brings a history of 170 years of steel making in Teesside to an end