Trostre & the Nuremberg Stadium

The Steel Company of Wales commenced building Trostre Works in the summer of 1947 and Messrs Wests Piling Co., Harmonds Worth, Middlesex, were employed as piling contractors. When piling ended in Spring 1950, Gerald Grant was engaged on the last few piles driven on the site of the weighbridge, near the main railway and recalls that the workmen drove piles to bedrock, 80 feet or more below.

Gerald also recalled that along with other employees, he was given a commemorative booklet, which said it had been a ‘Big Job’ and a world record had been created on this site. The Trostre site held the Second Highest World Record for the number of piles driven, first place went to the Nuremberg stadium, which was completed in 1938. The Nuremberg stadium funded, by the German government, was where Adolf Hitler reviewed his troops and massed armour.