Tinsley Park Steelworks
Tinsley Park Steelworks
1963 Formally opened by the Duke of Edinburgh on behalf of English Steel Corporation[1]
1967 Became part of British Steel on nationalisation
1968 A majority interest in the bar rolling mills was sold back to the private sector; a new JV company was formed for this venture called Sheffield Rolling Mills. Steel production and the bloom and billet mills would remain in state hands.[2]
1973 British Steel planned to build its new stainless steel manufacturing plant on the Tinsley Park site[3]
1973 British Steel planned to concentrate manufacture of a new type of spring at Tinsley Park, closing the old spring production facility at Stocksbridge[4]
1974 Stocksbridge was reprieved and would continue to make leaf springs[5]
1974 The under-utilised bar mills were to be sold off to a private joint venture company, Sheffield Rolling Mills, owned 45 percent by British Steel, 38 percent by Darwins and 17 percent by James Neill Holdings; ownership of the bloom and billet mills stayed with the rest of the steel works as part of British Steel[6]
1985 British Steel's Tinsley Park special steels complex included the Tinsley Park works, the Stocksbridge Works and Aldwarke Works[7]