British Steel Corporation

This page summarises records created by this Business

The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection.

Alternative name(s):	CORUS (Later known as)
Date:	1656-2009
Places:	London
Functions, occupations and activities:	Metal processing and manufacturing > Steel manufacture
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C99743 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B10242 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1656-2006: minutes, plans, photographs, deeds, production records and misc papers	Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Whitehaven	YBSC/1, YBSC/22
2	1693-1979: Bilston Steelworks - title deeds, wages books and other records	Wolverhampton City Archives	DB-31	See Guide (2003)
3	c 1857-2009: registers of shares and directors, minutes and correspondence, accounts, papers re scrapping of plant at various works and plant from Germany, Workington Welfare Hall annual returns & accounts, plans of Moss Bay plant, Holiday savings fund and Langton Highton Prize Fund accounts, Workington Cottage Trust Ltd articles of association, Jubilee Cottage Trust building files, annual returns and accounts, newsletters, deeds re lands near Workington	Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Whitehaven	YBSC	See Annual Return 2010
4	1900-1976: Millsands photographs	Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust	MNBS
5	20th cent: records of Glamorgan haematite iron ore mine, Llanharry	Glamorgan Archives	Acc 1998/45	See Annual Return 1998
6	1909-1980: ore mines work diaries, corresp, technical literature, photographs	North East Lincolnshire Archives	603	NRA 34992 BSC
7	1929-1950: notebooks recording furnace outputs and consumptions	Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Whitehaven	YBSC	See Annual Return 2008
8	1948- 2000: Publicity Department: correspondence file	Sheffield City Archives	X392
9	c1960-1999: negatives	Teesside Archives	Acc 7302	See Annual Return 2013
10	1968-1976: Operational Research reports for South Wales Group	Warwick University: Modern Records Centre	STO	NRA 40313 Operational
11	1997-2001: company newsletters	West Glamorgan Archive Service	D/D BS
12	c1890-2000: iron ore mining plans and opencast mine evaluations, report on output of West Cumberland Hematite mines and corresp	Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Whitehaven	YBSC	See Annual Return 2014, 2015
13	1970s-2010s: Material from South Bank Coke Ovens incl production records, site plans, photographs, condition surveys and mothballing	Teesside Archives	Acc/7839	See Annual Return 2021