Today

The lintel over the original entrance is the single most recognisable remnant of the past.

As late as 2018 there were corrugated iron huts dating from WWll and the stone walls of the High Line structure remaining.  The huts built in the 1940s occupied the former bunker spaces for iron ore and limestone. Records from that time show the line of huts extended as far as the road bridge over the railway. 

 The third wall had a vertical end meaning the right side hut is on the site of the coke bunker (one of two).

This bunker wall supporting the high line was arched. filled in at some later point. 

This is quite a conundrum. The walls had to be solid to stop the contents contaminating the neighbouring bunker. This arch has stone quoins below but the arch itself is brick. The outer construction is made from larger and more randomly sized stone blocks. All of which suggests the wall was modified once, maybe several times, and perhaps after closure of the works. 

Sadly all of this is no more and has been cleared to make way for industrial development.  I have a view on it, and it is that the bunker walls could have, should have, been preserved, even if they were incorporated in to a modern development. I was hugely disappointed to see them demolished without warning or ceremony.

The original ramp to the blast furnace high line, the tracks continuing under the left girder bridge. Photo taken in 2009 looking North.

Left of the main lines was where the ironworks exchange sidings were sited. 

Looking West beyond the aggregates yard which used to be the site of the ponds.

Pond Street out of view to the left. Three bunker walls numbered.