Historic Photography
Dowlais-Cardiff (East Moors) steelworks, Cardiff, c.1896
Nos. 1 to 3 of six open hearth furnaces. On the left stand a pair of rail-mounted ladles into which the steel from the furnaces was tapped. These were drawn along the rails by the steam crane on the right whilst the liquid steel they contained flowed into ingot moulds set in the pit between the rails. Beneath the covers in the left foreground are heated ‘soaking pits’ in which the solidified ingots were reheated after removal from the moulds.
