McIntyre Steelworks

Located in the heart of Hart Harbour, the McIntyre Steelworks is viewed as both a boon, by the investors who profit from it, and as a blight on the landscape by those who look down on this grubby, polluting industrial complex. 
Though the majority of the upper and middle class residents would deem the Steelworks to be beneath them as location of work, and in many ways resent the way it scars the landscape, dominating the skyline to the west, well within sight of the pleasant boardwalk of Harthill Pier and rambling historic houses of The Shambles. However, for many of the lower class residents of the town, the steelworks is a vital place of employment, the dangerous work at least providing a wage to feed their families.   
Since its foundation, by Orval Palmer McIntyre, the steelworks has been owned and run by The McIntyre Family.

Purpose / Function

The McIntyre Steelworks was built to exploit the naturally occurring veins of iron ore present in the nearby mountains and create basic form iron work and steel that is then sold onto and shipped out to different manufactures to be formed into secondary products.

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The main entrance for the workers to the steelworks is at the south-western corner of Iron Works Court, with the main entrance to the office building being at the south-eastern corner of Iron Works Court. 
The steelworks also has its own dedicated freight railway station in the north-western section of the compound, where the iron ore and coal shipped into town can be dumped as close to the stockpiling part of the complex.

Hazards & Traps

Due to the nature of the work conducted there, the steelworks is an incredibly hazardous place of work. For example, workers run the risk of serious burns within the forging sections of the steelworks and broken bones or worse from movement of huge piles of ore, coal and finished metal products around the complex.

Architecture

The steelworks is a large complex of brutalist brickwork buildings with corrugated iron roofs, which were very much made with the idea of form over function. The majority of these buildings are essentially empty boxes with as much space available inside to accommodate the giant forge workings and other paraphernalia used by the workers to create, shape and form the metal into the shapes required. If these buildings were laid out into regimented floors, they would all run to over four or five stories.

The central area of the complex is a large open courtyard that is used as a stockpile for the iron ore and other raw materials that are used in the manufacturing process, and the coal used to fuel the forges. 
The majority of the complex is put aside for the main workings of the steelworks, save for one long single story building that is the canteen and break area put aside for the workers, and an office complex, which was originally a large house built on the site that has been converted into a space to house the bureaucracy of the steelworks.

Founding Date

1837

Alternative Names

Hell's Gate

Type

Factory

Parent Location

Hart Harbour

Environmental Effects

Aside from the office and canteen buildings, the other parts of the steelworks are not designed with comfort in mind when it comes to temperature. The buildings where the main formwork takes place are uncomfortably warm, regardless of the time of year, whilst the storage warehouses are unheated and can become cripplingly cold in the winter. 
In addition, the metal forging and refining process produces noxious fumes that, when mixed with the copious amounts of smoke thrown out by the fires creates quite the noxious miasma.

Owning Organization

The McIntyre Family