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I remember that as well, there was a steel works there until 1981 when it was closed. The demolition and site clean up resulted in a lot of toxic dust being spread around the town, resulting in a major court case; this was dramatised on Netflix recently as Toxic City.
A lot of Scottish workers moved down to work in the steel works and the iron mining giving the area a distinctive flavour.
Tata Steel still have a works there.

 

That was informative

thanks everyone

Spruce

 

50000 Tones of coking coal from Japan, is on a ship alongside the quay at the steel plant, It just needs paid for before they will discharge the cargo or take it elsewhere

People may not think Virgin steel is important (why not melt a few scrap cars down) Virgin steel is very important for a country

 

My Dad was in the electronic research dept.

 

Stewart & Lloyd's before that......what goes around comes around....

 

Have spoken to a very nice chap at Plusnet about my slow speeds. He looked up my router type and was aghast I had such an ancient model. Apparently obsolete does not begin to cover it and the fact I have any connection at all via it is something close to a miracle.

Anyway, a new one has been ordered up. Do I have to pay anything, I asked. Oh no … well, except £6.99 postage. Seems quite steep for a small oblong package, but there we are.

 

Nice but really I dont think you should have to pay anything, its their equipment, they should upgrade it for free under your contract.

 

The equipment is free, @pete. It’s just getting it to me, by private helicopter possibly, that costs!

 

My Virgin one was replaced for free and they sent a "little man" round with it, and he installed and checked everything was working correctly

 

Hmm! Where’s my little man then? Or a medium sized one would do! TBF, if the new router does not do the trick, they will send an engineer, male or female, large or small. Clearly they regard the plugging in of their routers as something even a tech numpty can do unassisted.

 

Just grab the postman and get him to do it.4
Afterall he's the one getting the money.

 

@ViewAhead probably teaching my granny/grandad to suck eggs bud don't forget to change the router name and password to match that of the one being replaced.

 

I will do my best! Routers are mysterious magic boxes as far as I’m concerned. Bit like electrical sockets. I plug something in and it works, though the process of getting the power from its source to my end use is just one of those unexplainable marvels of modern life.