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Kelvin Savoury describes how working in the steelworks ran in the family: "This was given to my father Terrance Savoury (Terry), when he left the steelworks. It was made before they closed. He had started at the steelworks when he was 14, as a bricklayer apprentice, and was bricking furnaces until they closed. There were seven brothers who all worked at East Moors as brickies, apart from one who was an engineer. He died age 59 as a result of a furnace explosion in the new steelworks."

Kelvin Savoury explains why the souvenirs were made: "Some of these were made and given to a few people when the steelworks were closing. It shows slices of the long bars made by the factory. The round one was made into nails and the diamond shaped one into girders. When he left, my father was offered a post as manager at the Mini Mill, Rover Way, a steelworks made from scrap rather than how it was previously, from iron ore. Rather than take redundancy he left for this new job. He even took on some mates who were made redundant."