A POEM detailing life at Consett steelworks has been given pride of place in a town centre club.

Consett Steel Club, in Trafalgar Street, is the new home to a 1,000-word poem recalling day-to-day life at the town's steelworks.

Compiled by Bill Johnson, ex-steelworker and patternmaker, the verse is told from a father to his son.

Among its sentiments are the lines: "This is where you'll work my lad, eight hours or more for days. You'll sweat and toil with the rest of us, and do what the gaffer says."

Tommy Moore, of the Derwentdale Historical Society, framed the poem and had it placed on the club's wall.

He said: "Billy actually wrote this poem in the early 1950s and it featured in the society's second book. It tells the story of a young lad going down to the steelworks for the first time."