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Steel Workers

For many of the families that first moved onto the estates in north Sheffield, the main breadwinner worked in the steel or engineering industries. The estates were designed as a dormitory suburb for these workers.

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Mo with molten steel - select to see a larger image

Image reproduced by kind permission of Mo Goodwin.

There are men in the area who do still work in the steel industry, such as Mo Goodwin pictured here twenty-five years ago when he worked at Thomas C Hurdly’s.

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