I remember back in the 60s when my father was an overhead crane operator and my mother worked in the canteen. My father left and went to work at Corringdon in Weldon and I went on many deliveries in his lorry delivery of the tube to all over the country. In the 70s I was a bus driver living in Northampton and I used to drive the 254 and 256. One time I was in Corby I did a trip down to the works as they were short of bus and driver and they used us for a half-hour. We returned to Northampton running late but we arrived back in Northampton not late as we picked up speed. Memories. Brilliant, well-done Graham.
@@grahambutlin8835 Any chance of putting your drone up at the back of me so I can show an old neighbour of mine what the new extension to the cemetery is looking like? I can see the new roadway is coming along and a lot of earth is being brought in. Cheers Graham. She is in her 80s and I show her things on my laptop. I think a lot of Corby people would be interested as to what is going on and what it will look like. I am not sure how the people who live down the Aldi end is going to be happy with their new view? Maybe in another 20/30 years they will extend even further west and the land between the running track and Rannoch Way will be a new graveyard/cemetery?
Which part of the tube works still make tubes apart from the EWSR, my husband and his family havy along history of working at Corby in the steel and tube works my husband was born in the old village of Corby,
Overhead crane driver in the ewsr in the 70’s working off the stretch mill up to the straighteners. Those were the days. Would love to look round the old place again.
Corby tube work's nothing like it's former glory CW gone ERW gone PLUGMILL gone my husband was a slinger in the CW , then he moved to material movement moving coils from the slitting plant to the EWSR and CW plants, before the steel side shut he worked in the rolling mills then moved to Dean coke ovens where he learned all the jobs, so sad to all thats left of a once giant steel works, and the reason it closed a slump in the steel market, ravens Craig followed ten years later,😢
Thank you good video the old tube works 👍🏼
I remember back in the 60s when my father was an overhead crane operator and my mother worked in the canteen. My father left and went to work at Corringdon in Weldon and I went on many deliveries in his lorry delivery of the tube to all over the country. In the 70s I was a bus driver living in Northampton and I used to drive the 254 and 256. One time I was in Corby I did a trip down to the works as they were short of bus and driver and they used us for a half-hour. We returned to Northampton running late but we arrived back in Northampton not late as we picked up speed. Memories. Brilliant, well-done Graham.
Pleased you enjoyed it Tom,more local videos to come...
@@grahambutlin8835 Any chance of putting your drone up at the back of me so I can show an old neighbour of mine what the new extension to the cemetery is looking like? I can see the new roadway is coming along and a lot of earth is being brought in. Cheers Graham. She is in her 80s and I show her things on my laptop. I think a lot of Corby people would be interested as to what is going on and what it will look like. I am not sure how the people who live down the Aldi end is going to be happy with their new view? Maybe in another 20/30 years they will extend even further west and the land between the running track and Rannoch Way will be a new graveyard/cemetery?
A friend of mine Ian Bateman has done a video of cemetery extension, type in 'Ian from Corby ' on utube...
Which part of the tube works still make tubes apart from the EWSR, my husband and his family havy along history of working at Corby in the steel and tube works my husband was born in the old village of Corby,
Overhead crane driver in the ewsr in the 70’s working off the stretch mill up to the straighteners. Those were the days. Would love to look round the old place again.
Were you there when a hoist limit failed snapped the rope and the beam landed on the electrician's bakers bike basket
@ sorry don’t remember that.
Corby tube work's nothing like it's former glory CW gone ERW gone PLUGMILL gone my husband was a slinger in the CW , then he moved to material movement moving coils from the slitting plant to the EWSR and CW plants, before the steel side shut he worked in the rolling mills then moved to Dean coke ovens where he learned all the jobs, so sad to all thats left of a once giant steel works, and the reason it closed a slump in the steel market, ravens Craig followed ten years later,😢