A large wooden crane arm is attached to a pole beside weatherboard buildings, with people walking on the street in the distance.

Steelyard, Fountain Lane, Soham before 1934 (photo D G Reid) (Cambridgeshire Collection)

Steelyard, Fountain Lane, Soham

History of the steelyard

Listed Building

The steelyard in Fountain Lane was used for weighing carts and wagon loads of hay and straw until 1879 when the railway opened a weighbridge in Newmarket. It is one of two surviving in the country. The surrounding area was swept by fire in 1900. The steelyard building was one of few that survived. (Vanishing Cambridgeshire p.164)

A large wooden crane projects from a building on the left over a street lined with two-story buildings and a phone booth.

The Steelyards, Soham (MoCP69)

A wooden weighbridge crane extends from a building over a street in Soham, lined with brick buildings and mature trees.

Steelyard, Soham

A wooden lifting crane arm is mounted to the exterior wall of a white weatherboarded section attached to a brick building.

Steelyard, Fountain Lane, Soham (RGL2025)

Projects

Soham

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