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MINIMAL - Foundry Skybox @ Uber
Back in 1816, James Foster, an ironmaster, and engineer John Urpeth Rastrick became partners and formed the company in 1819. The place was badly damaged by fire in 2004.
John Rastrick was an important man, not just in Stourbridge but internationally. He was one of the official observers, or judges in the Rainhill Trials, a competition to win the contract to supply the locomotives for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Without his observations, we may not have known the colour and appearance of the winner, The Rocket.
Inside the foundry, four locomotives were made. The two most famous being the Stourbridge Lion and Agenoria, the latter which worked at the Shutt End Colliery, near Birmingham, for over 35 years. It was built to move coal trucks from mine workings to canal and river navigations and surrounding Iron foundries. It is now in the National Railway museum in York.
The Stourbridge Lion was also built here. It became the first locomotive to run on rails in the United States, in fact, andywhere in the Western Hemisphere. It operated between Honesdale and Seely's Mills in Pennsylvania on the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company's railroad, August 8, 1829. Only the bioler and a few other parts remain on show at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum.
It is a shame that such an important place in not just Stourbridge's but railway history is in such a bad state.
The lead square thing is dated 1670. It is believed to have stood there since then.
Whitechapel Bell Foundary
Europe, The Netherlands, Overijssel, Hengelo, Tuindorp, ROC van Twente (uncut)
The city of Hengelo is often called the 'metal city' because of its industrial facilities. The former foundry (ijzergieterij) of the Stork factory is shown here. It was constructed in 1902 and later was used for the maintenance of industrial appliances.
It served this purpose until the end of the 90s and was redeveloped into a school for professional education (ROC Twente) in 2009 by Harry Abels (IAA Architecten) and restoration architect Maarten Fritz (Architectenbureau Fritz).
Like we mostly do, we asked permission to enter. After gaining it (‘OK, but please leave after 5 minutes’), we walked into the astounding redeveloped industrial space. And met a security crew that looked at us somewhat dubiously. Time for a chat: ‘You’re out in force in today’ (there were 4 of them). ‘We’re here because of Corona’, and they told that they were astonished by the number of tourists that have started to visit the facility. ‘This is no tourist attraction’. ‘But you are !” and smiling I showed them a new leaflet ('Tuindorp-route') of the municipal tourist office (VVV) in which the building, its history, and architecture are featured.
We talked some more, and one of the guards told us that she knows the building well - her father had worked there, and during a holiday she had worked there too, as a temp.
This is number 216 of Urban frontiers and 385 of Interiors.
During the Civil War, Selma was one of the South's main military manufacturing centers, producing tons of supplies and munitions, and turning out Confederate warships such as the Ironclad warship CSSTennessee, resulting in the Battle of Selma. Union General James H. Wilson's troops destroyed Selma's army arsenal and factories, and much of the city, in a fiery, bloody siege.
Because of its central location, production facilities and rail connections, the advantages of Selma as a site for production of cartridges, saltpeter, powder, shot and shell, rifles, cannon and steam rams soon became apparent to the Confederacy. By 1863, just about every war materiel was manufactured within the limits of Selma, employing at least ten thousand people. The hull was laid for at least one Confederate ironclad, the Tennessee, and millions of dollars worth of army supplies were accumulated and distributed from Selma.
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Friend and former work colleague Colin Taylor brought a couple of prints to the 'Nine Arches' pub in Earlestown on Thursday night and this super rare image of DP2 was one of them. Taken by his Dad Geoff who was part of the team responsible for its disposal. The image dated Sunday October 1st 1967 was recorded on a visit when Colin, then aged nine, accompanied his Dad.
It shows the stricken prototype DP2 after its major Thirsk incident in the process of being stripped of servicable components that would be used on the class 50 production line that was at the time in full swing. It is reported the engine was used in D417 'Royal Oak'
The end finally came in September/October 1968 when a local scrap merchant based on Vista Road/ Crow Lane removed the remains.
* Just over a week before this image was taken D400 the first of the class 50's departed from the works on its delivery run to Crewe: www.flickr.com/photos/45021513@N08/7655212958/in/photolis...
A blacksmith was at work in East Street in the 12th to 13th century, and smithies were recorded outside the east gate in 1223
By the 19th century there were smithies throughout the town and surrounding area. Taunton’s craft metalworkers included cutlers and grinders.
The many medieval goldsmiths recorded from the 13th century probably served wealthy townsmen and rural gentry.
Although there was no official Taunton "mark" a cross
with four pellets is found on Taunton-made plate as well as the Taunton rebus.
Rebus: A representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound.
Taunton, Somerset, UK.
Drab and dreary in comparison to the interstellar tankers, spacecraft in the giant orbital foundries were nonetheless essential. The intense heat and chemical corrosion would burn and erode any fancy paint job and so these ships were left in their bare metal.
Front to back are the following: a main-dynamo replacement carrier, a fuel-core carrier and a medium heat-exchanger tug.
Work in progress in the foundry at the Sandaoling mining complex. If you were lucky when passing by, you could hear the thump of the big hammers, and then it was definitely worth taking a peek inside.
Xinjiang Province, China. January 2011. © David Hill
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