The Chinese still own it but no longer have any input, I've no idea how that will end (I do know how I'd like it to!!!) There's investment being put in Ric - furnaces don't really have a 'working life' as such, lots of the steel structure can be refurbed while the furnace is live/semi-live; the big investment is when the inner workings of the furnace is re-lined, the two remaining furnaces have been regularly re-lined for donkeys years and, hopefully, that'll continue,
There was talk that the plant required 2 modern electric furnaces and from memory they were 3 billion each? It's probably the case that the Government can't afford to save British Steel but it can't afford not to (as you've mentioned already,we need to have a facility to produce our own Steel).The point is coming in the very near future that the Government will either need to get right behind it or ditch it...Which they can't?
That's what the Chinese wanted and what started the rot; they wanted the Government to fund most of the billions to buy/build a single Electric Arc furnace and when the Gov't baulked at that the Chinese started ****ing about, feeding condemned **** into the furnaces and chilling the hearths & other assorted stunts - it was sabotage, plain and simple - it went on for so long and the Gov't had to act or lose the last iron making plant. Just for info Ric, electric arc makes steel from scrap - it's **** and everytime scrap steel goes into an EAF the steel just gets ****ter as does the products you make. Scunthorpe makes some of the best rail and tyre cord in the world and makes really good money from it - you can't make that from EAF steel.
Call me old fashioned,but I much preferred the 'ding' of the door opening and closing as you went through it? **** this tripping over Mango's,Yams and Rambutans on the pavement(**** me,Ive just inadvertently stumbled on another line for a song I'm working on) Edit.... This is the shop 100 yards from my Daughter's in Coatdyke(Coatbridge). My kind of shop,recognise it T.W?
I just had to google Rambutan. Why have I never heard of it or is it just one of them **** things, like haggis, that only the Scots will touch? Maybe it's me. I heard that advert on the radio the other day "have you got any old gold, silver, platinum or palladium, you want to sell". Palladium? What the **** is that? How can I have got through 60 odd years and nobody told me that is a metal? Sorry, I digress. By the way, in the shops that have taken over the pavements on Spring Bank, some have melons that are about the size of an average family car!
They're a South East Asian fruit that I ate as a youngster in Singapore(my old man was RAF and we were stationed there in the 60's).We had a tree in the garden that I climbed up and picked when ripe,only saw them a couple of times since. As for the melons,yes I've seen large melons on Springbank...Titter ye not.
Blundells Paint warehouse on the Boulevard bought by a London investment company, plans submitted to turn it into another HMO. Albert Hotel is going the same way too. Is the old picture house across the road from the stadium next and it the hotel next door to it already used as one? I know Haus House across road from EYMS bus depot already is. Popular area HU3. Not for a Sporting village though.
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Yeah, ya see. That is what is wrong with this board. Every so often someone comes along and actually knows what they are talking about. Much prefer the ill informed tosh and nonsense.
Well I have learned something today. Having googled, they look pretty on the outside but like a bushtucker trial on the inside, like a sheep's gonad!
