It is not certain when this former water powered forging site was converted to other power however it is known to have been in existence for some time in 1758 when the minutes of the Walker company recorded "At ye Holmes, rebuilt the slitting and rolling mill" (quo in Munford 2002) . A small mill dam is visible here on the 1851 OS and later plans. When the Holmes site was taken over by the Haberson business in 1829 the earlier plant on site was specialised steel strip and sheet rolling centre. After the invention of Stainless Steel the company became a major supplier to the motor and aircraft industries (ibid, 69-70). The company continued to introduce new techniques throughout the 20th century being one of the first steel works to introduce 'planetary' rolling (which reduces billets to final thickness in a single pass) in 1955. Despite nationalisation and then privatisation the site continued to produce steel until 1980 when all the buildings within this polygon were demolished. In addition to a good potential survival of archaeological remains on this site, fragments of the tail goit from the complex survive. The position of this site between the canal and railway line mean that its industrial history is partially legible.