page_title: Thos W Ward
hierarchical_section_title: Thos W Ward
caption_attribution_description: English: Field with power lines: Ketton, Rutland Ketton Kiln 8 (right stack) is at SK984058: it was the only Ketton kiln operating on this sharp December morning.
context_page_description: Thos. W. Ward Ltd was a Sheffield, Yorkshire steel, engineering and cement business which began as coal and coke merchants then expanded to recycling metal for Sheffield's steel industry, engineering and the supply of machinery.
  In 1894 as part of the scrap metal operation Ward's began to set up substantial shipbreaking yards in different parts of England and in Scotland and Wales. By 1953 Thos W Ward employed 11,500 people.
  Ward's business was reorganised at the end of the 1970s when it moved from being an engineering group with a motley assortment of subsidiaries to being principally dependent on cement. In 1982 it was bought by RTZ.
context_section_description: Thos. W. Ward Ltd was a Sheffield, Yorkshire steel, engineering and cement business which began as coal and coke merchants then expanded to recycling metal for Sheffield's steel industry, engineering and the supply of machinery.
  In 1894 as part of the scrap metal operation Ward's began to set up substantial shipbreaking yards in different parts of England and in Scotland and Wales. By 1953 Thos W  Ward employed 11,500 people.
  Ward's business was reorganised at the end of the 1970s when it moved from being an engineering group with a motley assortment of subsidiaries to being principally dependent on cement. In 1982 it was bought by RTZ.
caption: Cement kiln 8, Ketton, Rutland
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