page_title: Ottovale coke works
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Ottovale coke works / History
caption_attribution_description: English: This upload is from a volume in the ownership of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_of_England_Institute_of_Mining_and_Mechanical_Engineers at Newcastle Upon Tyne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcastle_upon_Tyne. The actual volume is out of copright by virtue of age. The scan would be in copyright which is waived. The Institute librarian Jennifer Hillyard has freely and fully consented to this upload to Wiki Commons which has been undertaken at the Institute.
context_page_description: Ottovale coke works was a large industrial complex situated at Blaydon Burn, near Blaydon-on-Tyne, Gateshead, North East England. The complex comprised a coke works, tar works and a power station. Built on the site of Dockendale Hall in 1904, it was operated by the Priestman Collieries until the 1970s.
  The power station at the plant, known as Blaydon Burn Power Station or the Priestman Power Station was fuelled by waste heat from the coking process. In the 1910s, a number of advancements in steam turbine technology were first implemented at the station.
context_section_description: In 1853 a shaft was sunk for the Blaydon Main coal seam at Blaydon Burn, and in 1902 a coke works was set up on the site of the nearby Dockendale Hall. This was operated by the Priestman Power Company, producing coke using 80 coke ovens, made by the Otto-Hilgenstock company of Germany.
  By the 1950s, 90 ovens were operating at the plant. In 1958, one battery, equating to about half of the plant's ovens, were shut down along with ovens at Shotton Colliery and Whinfield coke works. This affected the employment of 150 men, as many of whom the National Coal Board and the union tried to find alternative employment for. The closures were due to a reorganisation of the industry by the board. At this point the works at Ottovale were one of the oldest coking plants in the Durham coalfield.
caption: Otto - Hilgenstock Coke Oven drawing
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