{"id":8388,"date":"2019-03-10T13:52:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T13:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/corby-steelworks-closure-remembered-40-years-on\/"},"modified":"2019-03-10T13:52:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T13:52:36","slug":"corby-steelworks-closure-remembered-40-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/corby-steelworks-closure-remembered-40-years-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Corby steelworks closure remembered 40 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>The fallout from the announcement 40 years ago that Europe&#8217;s largest steelworks were to close has been revealed in BBC archive material.<\/p>\n<p>At their height the works in Corby, Northamptonshire, employed half the town &#8211; with thousands of people moving from Scotland to work.<\/p>\n<p>However, in 1979 British Steel announced what workers were dreading &#8211; the plants were no longer financially viable and would close.<\/p>\n<p>The decision sparked mass protest and led to thousands of people being laid off.<\/p>\n<p>A small part of the steel industry remains, but in recent years the town has regenerated with new businesses moving to the area and major transport links being built.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-northamptonshire-47497567\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fallout from the announcement 40 years ago that Europe&#8217;s largest steelworks were to close has been revealed in BBC archive material. At their height the works in Corby, Northamptonshire, employed half the town &#8211; with thousands of people moving from Scotland to work. However, in 1979 British Steel announced what workers were dreading &#8211; &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}