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Ravenscraig Rolling Mills in 1985. Ravenscraig Steel Works, as well as the former settlement of the same title, took its name from the nearby secluded cliff face called Ravenscraig (translated as Raven's Cliff or Cliff of the Ravens) situated in the valley of the South Calder Water, north of the steelworks site, first shown on the 1st Edition Ordnance Survey Map of 1859.
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 ...
Ravenscraig Castle was passed into state care in 1955 and has been open to the public by the owners Historic Scotland since 1971. [13] [16] [12] It is now managed by Historic Environment Scotland, and is protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument. [17] Celtic punk band The Real McKenzies filmed the video for their song Drink Some More at ...
Ravenscraig Castle. Ravenscraig Castle, also known as the Craig of Inverugie, is a ruined 15th-century L-shaped tower-house north-west of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. [1] It is a scheduled ancient monument. [2] The castle was the seat of the barony of Torthorston, held by the Cheynes family, and passed to the Keiths in the mid-14th century.
Ravenscrag may refer to: . Ravenscrag, Saskatchewan, a settlement in Saskatchewan, Canada; Ravenscrag Formation, a stratigraphical unit in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
Ravenscraig is a new town built in North Lanarkshire, Scotland Ravenscraig may also refer to: Ravenscraig Castle (disambiguation) Ravenscraig railway station; Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility, a newly built large sports complex on the site of the new town. Ravenscraig steelworks, the former steelworks on the site of the new town.
The Ravenscraig Quarry (55.695026 -4.668213) to Jameston Quarry (55.683808 -4.678430) line was a 'Bogey Line' using 'bogeys' or small waggons that transported freestone (sandstone) to another freestone quarry at Jameston near Auchenskeith for transfer into standard gauge waggons and onward transport via the standard gauge Glasgow and South-Western Railway's Dalry to Kilmarnock line. [1]