Consett Iron, 1840-1980. A study in industrial location

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A scholarly unsponsored history of the Consett Iron Co Ltd which, inter alia, sheds light on locational issues. Has chapters: 'Ironmaking in County Durham and the north east to 1850'; 'Cleveland ore and adjustments at inland plants'; 'Railway accommodation for Consett, 1834 to 1862'; 'Consett crises and expansion, 1857 to 1870'; 'Early assessments for development planning'; 'Re-equipment and reorganisation of the supply and marketing situation to the mid 1870s'; 'The great crisis - collapse in the finished iron trade and move into steel production'; 'Creation of a town and a society - and of the inertia of social overhead capital'; 'Consideration of relocation in the 1890s'; 'Consett, 1890 to 1914'; 'Unravelling the puzzle of Consett success'; 'The Great War'; 'The 1920s - a critical decade in Consett development'; 'The thirties - depression, and the national and regional organization'; 'Consett Iron and the redevelopment of Jarrow'; 'Consett Works after World War II'; 'The new plate mill'; 'The mid sixties - Consett's location challenged and defended'; 'Consett within the British Steel Corp'; 'The progress to closure, 1980'; 'The Jarrow of the eighties?'; 'One-industry communities - private and social costs'