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Stanton Ironworks - The Last Cast

Production at Stanton Ironworks in Ilkeston drew to a close when the last pipe was cast on May 24, 2007. The last of the 185 production workers at the pipe-making factory walked out of the gates for the final time. Stanton Ironworks was once Ilkeston’s largest manufacturing concern and consequently the town’s biggest employer of local labour in the area. The Stanton and Staveley group was also part of the British Steel Corporation, forming part of its Tubes Division. At its height, the company employed around 12,500 people of which 7,000 worked at the Stanton works. Evidence has been found that iron production has taken place in this area since Roman times and the remains of medieval bloom furnaces have been uncovered at Stanley Grange near to West Hallam. In 1788, a small blast furnace had been built and operated in the area between Stanton by Dale and Dale Abbey which, although in operation for little more than 15 years, laid the foundations for one of the largest industries in the area. However, the true origins of the Stanton Ironworks go back to 1846 when Chesterfield man, Benjamin Smith and his son Josiah, brought three blast-furnaces into production alongside the banks of the Nutbrook Canal. Between 1865 and 1867,  Benjamin Smith’s original three furnaces were replaced with five new furnaces. This site becoming known as the Old Works. Smith’s furnaces produced about 20 tons of pig iron per day but the company soon experienced financial difficulties and there followed a series of take-overs during the middle of the 19th century. During this period the business was taken over by the Crompton family. This family owned the company for over eighty years, re-naming the works: The Stanton Iron Company. The Franco-Prussian War of 1870 created a huge demand for iron and the works expanded rapidly with the construction of new furnaces and foundries (the New Works) alongside the Erewash Canal in the early 1870s. By the early 20th century the business was named The Stanton Ironworks Company Ltd. The company was eventually taken over by Stewarts and Lloyds Ltd and was merged with the Staveley Iron and Chemical Company Ltd in 1960 to form Stanton and Staveley. When in 1967 Stewarts and Lloyds became part of the nationalised British Steel Corporation, its major subsidiary – Stanton and Staveley – was also incorporated. Over the years the company has produced a vast range of products. Spun iron pipes, pig iron, pre-stressed concrete pipes, street furniture, lighting columns and cast-iron tunnel segments, used in the construction of the London Underground and the Mersey Tunnel. Other by-products included chemicals, coke oven gas, bitumen and road-stone. It was also a vital producer of artillery shells in both world wars. During the Great War War of 1914-1918 Stanton produced large numbers of shell casings, while during the conflict of 1939-45, both shell and bomb casings, gun barrels, and concrete air-raid shelter components were produced. With its experience in high quality concrete products, Stanton was also involved with the production of experimental concrete torpedo casings. During the Second World War, the Stanton Gate Foundry (known to later generations as the Erewash Foundry) produced 873,500 bomb casings The years following the war saw Stanton’s fortunes fluctuate with nationalisation, privatisation and re-nationalisation taking place. During the early 1980s Stanton became part of the French Pont-a-Mouson Group and later part of Saint-Gobain. Today most of the site has been demolished and the area is under redevelopment as New Stanton Park covering 200 acres of land. Finally I take this opportunity to express my thanks to Steve Hatton who presented me with the original footage back in 2007 for use on a website dedicated to Stanton Ironworks. Unfortunately the original website no longer exists www.stantonironworks.co.uk however this domain has been taken over by others where some of the original contents remains. For many years Youtube B.H Productions has been used as a platform as a amateur video production hobby and I finally decided to use this original footage to put together a short film which is dedicated to all who have worked at Stanton throughout its existence. I hope this film does justice to all who have worked at Stanton and that the persons presented in this film are not offended by this publicity, may it never be forgotten!