At Dunmail Park Shopping Centre we are proud of our history, prior to work commencing on Dunmail Park in 1986, the site had been used as a mining site, iron works, colliery, steel works and a textile mill and at one point was providing employment for

point was providing employment for over 5,000 people. See below for a brief description of the sites history. Until the late nineteenth century the area surrounding Siddick Ponds was completely undeveloped, it only started to be exploited during the latter part of the industrial revolution when minerals were located. Activity continued to grow on the site and during the 1860s the West Cumberland Hematite Ironworks was founded and built. In under 40 years the Ironworks was joined by the North Western Hematite Steel works, the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway, to the North of the site and the St Helens Colliery. In the 1900s the area surrounding Siddick Ponds, which had once been empty, was now providing

jobs for over 5,000 people and the sites, including Workington Port, continued to grow up to and during the First World War. The site became even busier in the early 1930s when it and the surrounding area was purchased by English Industrial Estates who in 1937 built a 150,000 sq ft textile mill on the site now occupied by Dunmail Park. The mill, colliery and steel works continued to produce goods until the