Just so that I don’t lose the link, here is some great footage from the Parkgate Iron & Steel Co. in Rawmarsh, near Rotherham, Yorkshire. It’s about 60 years later than when my 3x great-grandfather James Williams was working there.
There’s a photo of the works in the 1850s here, which is just a few years after James Williams is recorded there on the 1841 census.
Robert Swan
Feb 26, 2011
My great grandfather, George Kemp, lost his life here after being run over by a railway wagon while shunting on November 24th 1876. Any information from the local press?
Edmund James Crossland
Jul 1, 2013
I have a good few photo’s of Parkgate forge my uncle worked in turbine house all his life I was a steam hammer driver.
David Bruce Ferrie
Jul 28, 2013
I have just came across this site. My grandfather, Francis Ping, Works Manager at Parkgate and Rawmarsh Iron Works, died rather tragically around 1906, described in the Rotherham press as “from a well known local family” and yet on visiting the area I could not find any local information beyond his unmarked grave. My mother, before her own death only had a “shadowy recollection” of her father and had no photographs etc. Could there possibly be further information, like photographs in archives and how can I access them. I would be obliged if anyone can be of assistance.