Allan Watkins -  Pickler Team Leader -  29 years at the Works The closure announcement came and we were all a bit stunned. Management kept saying how professional the workforce were by carrying on as usual but deep down people
Alun Hodson -  Engineer on Pickle Line -  12 years at the Works I started in Ebbw Vale in May 1990.  I was 23 years old and I remember coming home after my induction day, which included signing up to the Works Club and bec
Alan Lewis (left) - Anode Caster - 13 years at the Works Nigel Davis (right) - Anode Caster - 15 years at the Works
Alan Harris -  Electrical Fitter -  34 years at the Works My strongest and fondest memory of the plant was the life- long friends and work mates that I had for the whole period I worked at Ebbw Vale.  In the electrical Dep
Alun Rees (left) -  Team Leader Warehouse & Distribution -  32 years at the Works Howard Vaughan (right) - Team Member Warehouse & Distribution - 25 years at the Works Alun Rees... My strongest memories of the W
Andrew Brace - Team Leader Cleaning & Annealing - 25 years at the Works
Andrew Stokes -  Team Leader 5 Stand -  16 years at the Works I quickly made the decision to take my redundancy as both my wife and I had parents who were unwell and most of the jobs that Corus said were available were dependen
Ambrose Pope -  Steel Process Operator & Training Officer -  35 years at the Works My strongest memories of the plant are the comradeship me and my fellow employees shared from when I first started work in 1967 until its cl
Alan Lewis - Anode Caster - 13 years at the Works
David Ashman (left) -  Shift Specialist, Cleaning & Annealing -  24 years at the Works Andrew Brace (centre) - Process Specialist, Cleaning & Annealing - 25 years at the Works Keith Williams (right) - Stock Base L
Bill Davies - Team Member Warehouse - 22 years at the Works
Bill Hill - General Labourer - 41 years at the Works
Jason Briggs (left) - Maintenance Fitter - 18 years at the Works Brian Evans (right) - Maintenance Fitter - 34 years at the Works Brian Evans... It was a man’s world where the work could often be hard, but you all worked together for the com
Byron Price - Team Leader 5 Stand - 34 years at the Works
Clive Jones (front) - Team Member Warehouse - 22 Years at the Works Nick Dallimore (back) - Team Member Warehouse - 24 years at the Works
Colin Hazlewood -  5 Stand Team Leader -  32 years at the Works The 5 Stand was the place where nobody else from any other department wanted to work.  It was a dirty place to work.  I remember we used to call it ‘cree
Daman Jukes -  Team Member Pickler -  13 years at the Works My strongest memories are playing a game called ANGLES in the Roll Shop.  This involved throwing the little rubber balls (that came out of the sandblaster) around
Darren Powell - Team Leader Post  Coating  - 25 years at the Works
Darren Roberts - Team Member Stockyard & Warehouse - 18 years at the Works
David Lloyd - Team Member/Deputy Team Leader on 3 ETL -  25 years at the Works The camaraderie and the adaptability of the workforce at Ebbw Vale are the memories that will always stay with me. At the time of the closure I felt v
David Wilkshire  - Bench Joiner - 36 years at the Works
Delwyn Evans -  Store Keeper and Team Leader -  35 years at the Works My strongest memories of the plant are working with a great bunch of people who became mates.  The socializing, not just with work colleagues but also w
Deri Noble (left) - Warehouse Team Member - 33 years at the Works Robert Russell (right) -  Warehouse Team Member -  28 years at the Works Robert Russell... My strongest memories of the plant are all about the camarader
Dilwyn Evans - Mechanical & Technical Engineer - 33 years at the Works
Glyn Williams (left) -  Team Leader Tinning Line Operator -  33 years at the Works My strongest memories are from when I first started at Ebbw Vale - the enormity of the plant and the diversity of work being done.  Jobs li
Ian James - Roll Grinder Roll Shop - 13 years at the Works
Ian Powell -  Fitter Turner -  39 years at the Works Everybody in the modern world talks a bought the concept of "Team Working" which I find rather amusing, because the camaraderie and the friendship of all my workmates were se
John Chaffey -  Fitter Turner/Roll Grinder -  37 years at the Works I felt stabbed in the back at the time of closure!  We did everything they asked us to do and they still shut us down.  The director told us they wer
John Riley -  Team Leader Stores -  33 years at the Works The closure of the Works was a travesty as the Plant was a profitable one, but having been taken over by Hoogovens of Holland, the decision was taken out of our hands.
John Sheppard (left) - Manufacturing Support Specialist - 34 years at the Works Dilwyn Evans (right) - Mechanical & Technical Engineer - 33 years at the Works
John Sims -  Crane Driver -  30 years at the Works The main thing about the Works was that we were all good friends and would always help one another out.  It was just like one big happy family. At the time of closure I
Keith Edwards - Team Member Galvanizing - 22 years at the Works
Jonathan Griffiths - Lighting Engineer - 10 years at the Works
Keith Williams -  Annealing Bay Stocker, Base Loader and Crane Driver -  29 years at the Works Ebbw Vale was a great place to work as mostly everyone knew everyone else.  My strongest memories are of all the great friendsh
Lyndon T Crosby (left) -  Welder -  35 years at the Works Steve Watkins (right) - Team Leader Annealing Electrician - 35 years at the Works Lyndon Crosby... I was extremely apprehensive during the time of closure, but r
Mark Ford -  Roll Shop Engineer -  10 years at the Works I think that we had taken such a pounding over the years, cuts after cuts (so called efficiencies), workloads increasing, pressure increasing, it seemed like it was bad n
Mike Gardner (front) - Team Leader Electronic Tinning Line - 32 years at the Works Ian Lapham (back) - Team Leader Electronic Tinning Line - 33 year at the Works
Mike Gardner -  Team Leader Electronic Tinning Line -  32 years at the Works My strongest memory of the plant is comradeship.  The experience of working in that environment will be with me forever.  You met people fro
Mike Tarr -  Projects Engineer -  29 years at the Works My strongest memories are all my friends and work colleagues that I worked with during my 29 years service at the plant. It’s difficult for many on the outside to understa
Mike Williams -  Team Leader -  32 years at the Works My strongest memories of the plant are the banter and the friendship.  Work was your other family.  In fact, looking back, I probably spent more time with colleagu
Neil Mitchell -  Electrician -  38 years at the Works My first memories of the Works was as a child.  I visited my grandparents with my Mum and Dad every Sunday for tea.  They lived in a white washed terraced building
Paul Lewis - Team Leader Temper Mill - 18 years at the Works
Paul Price -  Production Operator & Team Leader -  38 years at the Works Two funny memories come to mind, though there are very many.  The first is that of when we were all having food in the mess room.  &nbs
Paul Skinner -  Production Worker 5 Stand - Entry End Operator -  30 years at the Works   When they announced the closure of Ebbw Vale, I along with many hard working men were shattered and devastated.  After all t
Peter O’ Callaghan - Fitter/Roll Grinder -   15 years at the Works At the time of closure I was sixty and would liked to have had five more years to take me to retirement.  But I was devastated seeing young men with families losing
Philip Lawton -  Fitter/Roll Grinder -  34 years at the Works At the start of my apprenticeship in 1968, there were approximately 10,000 people working at the Richard, Thomas and Baldwins (RTB) Steel Works in Ebbw Vale. The
Ralph Stevens - Double Reduction Mill Operator - 32 years at the Works
Ray Best (left) -  Fitter/Turner -  40 years at the Works Philip Blackmore (right) -  Fitter -  46 years at the Works Ray Best... When I started working at the plant, it seemed everybody either had a rel
Rob Collins - Team Member Roll Shop - 34 years at the Works
Robert Plummer - Boiler Plant Operator - 25 years at the Works
Ron Jones - Pickle Line Operator - 32 years at the Works
Steve Timothy - Team Member Pickle Line - 16 years at the Works
Steve Watkins -  Maintenance Electrician -  33 years at the Works During my 33 years at the Ebbw Vale Works, I worked in the steel-making end known as ‘Victoria’, the Hot Mill and the Cold Mill and I can truly say that the men
Stewart Price - Team Leader Roll Shop - 1 year at the Works
Tony Wilson (left) -  Team Leader Mechanical Services - 37 years at the Works Brian Evans (centre) - Maintenance Fitter - 34 years at the Works Bob Warfield (right) - Maintenance Fitter - 35 years at the Works
Tony Wilson -  Team Leader Mechanical Services -  37 years at the Works That I never ever minded going to work.  It didn’t matter whether it was the day, afternoon or the nights; once you entered through that gate you ente
Vincent Keane -  Team Leader Temper Mill -  33 years at the Works I remember there being over 12,000 men when I started in 1968, at the very young age of 16 and a half.  Back then the steelworks ran the full length of the
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