In October 2015, Thai steelmaker SSI went into liquidation resulting in Teesside’s last remaining steelworks closing and bringing and end to and industry that had dominated the area for 170 years.
Monckton Cokeworks at Royston, South Yorkshire, was Britain's last surviving independent by-product coking plant and it's oldest too, having been in continuous use since 1878 until it's closure in December 2014