Original sentence: South Bank has a long history of steelmaking in the companies Bolckow and Vaughan and Dorman Long and shipbuilding in the famous Smiths Dock Company
Edited sentence: Formerly known as "Tees Tilery", South Bank has a long history of steelmaking in the companies Bolckow and Vaughan and Dorman Long and shipbuilding in the famous Smiths Dock Company.It used to rejoice in the nickname of "Slaggy Island" as it was surrounded by Slag Heaps, the waste product of the Iron and Steel furnaces that formed the basis of the economy of the area during it's formative years.The Homepage of the South Bank Nostalgia Society