Sheffield Forgemasters dates back to the 1750s, when it was a small blacksmith forge. Mill owner Edward Vickers started to turn the business into a modern steel producer in 1805.
The firm has been associated with famous steel industry names such as English Steel, Firth Brown, British Steel and River Don Castings.
Its website boasts: “Sheffield Forgemasters is now capable of producing the largest and most technically-challenging cast and forged steel components in the world.”
In recent decades the firm has seen many successes, as well as strikes by steelworkers, job losses, floods that hit its Brightside Lane works in 2007 and the controversial cancellation of an £80m loan by the coalition government in 2010.
1. Fighting back
A Forgemasters protest at Sheffield Town Hall over the £80m loan loss issue Photo: Stuart Hastings
2. Historic recreation
A meticulously-accurate recreation of a 16-tonne Titanic anchor which was made by Forgemasters in 2010 for a Channel 4 series, We Built Titanic Photo: Forgemasters
3. Kevin to rescue
Driver Kevin Marshall at the Forgemaster Works on Brightside Lane helped rescue people from the 2007 floods Photo: Michael Waistell
4. Industrial giant
The familiar sight of Sheffield Forgemasters on Brightside Lane Photo: Sarah Washbourn