Phil Lockwood Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 Does anyone know whereabouts on Claywheels Lane they were located? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLongden Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 Here… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Lockwood Posted August 27, 2021 Author Share Posted August 27, 2021 Thanks. However the rolling mills I am looking for were still in use in the late 60s / early 70s and employed a small narrow gauge battery locomotive within the works. Do you think they could have been "modern" rolling mills built on the site shown on the old map / Google Earth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLongden Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 9 hours ago, Phil Lockwood said: Thanks. However the rolling mills I am looking for were still in use in the late 60s / early 70s and employed a small narrow gauge battery locomotive within the works. Do you think they could have been "modern" rolling mills built on the site shown on the old map / Google Earth? This map is of that period and shows ‘travelling crane’ on the site, so maybe this is what you are looking for? https://www.old-maps.co.uk/index.html#/Map/432453/391942/12/100955 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 https://www.picturesheffield.com/s00765 "Winn Gardens Estate, Middlewood with Clay Wheels Rolling Mills Ltd. in the background" circa 1965. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 1957 directory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Lockwood Posted August 28, 2021 Author Share Posted August 28, 2021 Thanks for your replies. The map is what I was looking for. I think the narrow gauge railway was within one of the buildings. Incidentally the Picture Sheffield Winn Gardens photo is incorrectly captioned; in the back ground is Niagara Forge now United Crane Services 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael68 Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 Two of my uncles used to work at this place in the 1950s, but it wasnt referred to as Clay wheels Lane Rolling Mills. Im sure they called it Dunford and Elliott. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLongden Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Dunford_and_Elliott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lysanderix Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 I think the place had a few names following take overs and “rationalisation”. Dunford and Elliot was the company which took over the much larger Hadfielda forming Dunford Hadfields…..this company incorporated all the subsidiaries of the two companies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael68 Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 11 hours ago, RLongden said: https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Dunford_and_Elliott It does mention a rolling mill at Claywheels Lane on the 1952 poster on the Grace's Guide page. What I most remember of my uncles working there was the singed bottoms on their trouser legs from catching the red hot steel with tongs to move it onto the next position in the rolls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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