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Ravenscraig is a housing development and historic village located in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, one point five miles (two kilometres) north-east of central Motherwell. Ravenscraig was formerly the site of Ravenscraig steelworks ; once the largest hot strip steel mill in western Europe, the steelworks closed in 1992, and is now almost totally ...
Perhaps the first ship to bear the name Ravenscraig (with an "i") was a 581 to 589 tons, 140 feet (43 m) long, wooden sailing ship, sheathed in copper, that was built in 1853 in South Shields, England, and owned by Lockart & Co. [20] Though registered in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, it was employed initially in the Australian and New Zealand wool trade, [21] [22] and was still in service in 1865 when ...
The closure of Ravenscraig in 1992 signalled the end of large-scale steel making in Scotland. [8] It led to a direct loss of 770 jobs, and another 10,000 jobs linked to these [ 9 ] (although the nearby steel plants at Dalzell in Motherwell and Clydebridge in Cambuslang were in 2012 still in operation under the ownership of Tata Steel Europe ...
Ravenscrag may refer to: . Ravenscrag, Saskatchewan, a settlement in Saskatchewan, Canada; Ravenscrag Formation, a stratigraphical unit in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
The castle was used as an ammunition depot during the First World War. [12] In 1929, 85 acres (34 ha) of the estate, including the castle, was given to the town of Kirkcaldy by the Nairn family as a public park. [15] Ravenscraig Castle was passed into state care in 1955 and has been open to the public by the owners Historic Scotland since 1971.
The Ravenscrag Formation is a stratigraphic unit of early Paleocene age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. [2] It was named for the settlement of Ravenscrag, Saskatchewan, and was first described from outcrops at Ravenscrag Butte near the Frenchman River by N.B. Davis in 1918.
History of the World [1] is a compendium written by a collection of noted historians. It was edited by William Nassau Weech, M.A., a former Headmaster of Sedbergh School (and a very early aficionado of downhill skiing who also wrote By Ski in Norway, one of the first British accounts of the sport).
A book to accompany the series, A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor, was published by Allen Lane on 28 October 2010. [2] The entire series is also available for download along with an audio version of the book for purchase. The British Museum won the 2011 Art Fund Prize for its role in hosting the project.