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Hartlepool Magnesite Works
The Works are now being dismantled but were once used in the process of extracting magnesium from limestone by sea water process. The Plant started in Hartlepool in about 1937, played a role in World War II and then rapidly expanded after the war. During the war years it was used for aircraft components and incendiary bombs - train-loads of lime were brought into the plant and mixed with the magnesium. Situated here on the Hartlepool coast meant it was close to the sea for the extraction of the magnesium as well as being on train lines for limestone delivery. The export of the purified magnesium was also then handled by the trains for use in making the aircraft and incendiary bombs.This was once a thriving industrial community and the Works have been owned by various companies since it was first built - the southern section of the Plant is still in use and now used for the production of products for glossy paper and toothpastes.
These old towns on the coast of north-east England are always transforming themselves. Try and view these sinister looking buildings before they are demolished and gone forever.
