By the tap hole with the ironworker What sort of grunting noises
does the furnace in the Landscape Park make when pig iron is
being produced? What blooming surprises do you think you’re in
for when you set off to explore nature in the park? What happens
if the furnace gets a sore “throat”? The guided tours through
the Landscape Park are as varied as the former ironworks itself.
Whether it’s through the Parklands or the area around Blast
Furnace 5 and high up to the viewing platform – a guided tour
through the Landscape Park will show you a piece of living
industrial and cultural history. Part of that living history is,
for example, the fact that former ironworkers regularly come
here to meet up with the Blast Furnace again. Standing in front
of the Blast Furnace’s run-off chute they talk to visitors about
the hot working conditions and give an insight into an
ironworker's life. It’s especially on the torchlit guided tours
at weekends that the works once more gives off a fiery glow just
as it did thirty years