Day 127, Ponds Forge construction

I used to get the bus to Oughtibridge when I worked as a care worker there.  Sitting on the top deck of the bus gave a decent view of the construction work on Ponds Forge International Sports Centre as it was being built for the World Student Games of 1991.

Built on the site of the earliest iron forge known as Pond Forge, the area was the location of iron and steel working for hundreds of years.  There are some signs that this used to be a steel works, there's a large anvil at one point, and at the back of the building there is an archway with the legend "George Senior and Sons Ltd Ponds Forge". 

I've only swum there once, the water was bloody freezing, they need to add some molten steel to give it a little heat.