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Honestly, this place begged for the company of photographers. It's voice was ancient but almost pleading with urgency. My friends and I were bewitched by the place. We formalized a photographers co-operative for the purpose of exploiting this hidden treasure. We wandered with our gear over railroad tracks, down overgrown trails through the tangled woodland, in and out of the skeletal ruins, freezing and sneezing in snow and ice storms and sweltering in bugs and vines over the seasons of three years. It was a visual sirens song.
The entire relic and all the surrounding woodland has now been scraped away and made into a toxic waste dump for a large paper corporation.
I have been going through hundreds of negatives looking for the best Flickr fodder in the lot. The muse still has fire for the place when I print this stuff. As long as these images persist so does the old foundry along with a hundred and fifty years of hidden history.
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The Foundry at the National Slate Museum in Llanberis. This site was supplying and maintaining the massive Dinorwic quarry until 1969.
An entry in the Guinness Book of Records lists the Whitechapel Bell Foundry as Britain's oldest manufacturing company, having been established in 1570, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, and being in continuous business since that date. In 1970, therefore, the Foundry celebrated its quatercentenary
The company was founded by Robert Mot in 1570 and continued casting bells until May 2017.
Whitechapel's famous bells include the original Liberty Bell (1752), the Great Bell of Montreal and, probably best known of all, Big Ben at the Palace of Westminster. Cast in 1858, this is the largest bell ever cast at Whitechapel, weighing 13½ tons.
The foundry closed on 12th June 2017, after nearly 450 years of bell-making and 250 years at its Whitechapel site, with the final bell cast given to the Museum of London along with other artefacts used in the manufacturing process
The West Point Foundry was a major American ironworking and machine shop site in Cold Spring, New York, operating from 1818 to about 1911. Initiated after the War of 1812, it became most famous for its production of Parrott rifle artillery and other munitions during the Civil War, although it also manufactured a variety of iron products for civilian use. The increase of steel making and decreasing demand for cast iron after the Civil War caused it to become bankrupt gradually and cease operations during the early 20th Century.
Foundry United Methodist Church, 1500 16th St NW, built 1904 for a congregation established in 1814. President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton frequently attended services here in the 1990s.
Simonds Country Link of Diss Volvo B7TL Plaxton President MSU 917 waits for the lights on Foundry Bridge. A pleasant if busy spot on the river Wensum. The Costa cafe just out of sight on the left overlooking the river as had recent sightings of Otter. So despite being in the middle of the city the water must be quite clean.
Just started re-scanning lots of 35mm negatives taken in the 1990s at the old Lister Petter foundry in Dursley, Gloucestershire. This point was when the molten metal was transferred from the large furnace to a smaller vessel before being used to make engine blocks.
Metra newly repainted MP36PH is passing by Foundry Park in Elgin, IL. This park was once the site of the Elgin Windmill Company. This windmill was restored in 2013 and moved to the site where it was originally built. Its the last Elgin built windmill still in Elgin.
This is Taylor's Bell Foundry in Loughborough, Leicestershire, the last remaining working foundry in the UK. They make and export bells all over the world. No-one was working while I was there, but you could hear the oven firing up behind the red door at the end. The yellow crane at the back was also made in Loughborough by Herbert Morris Ltd who operated in the town from 1857-1969. To a visitor like myself, this looks like a chaotic environment, but I expect the workforce know where everything is.
52 Frames Week 44: Chaos
I visited as part of the Heritage Open days initiative.
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The last from this place. It was gross and I can feel that headache coming back.
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On the Mirpur Khas metre gauge network in Pakistan, oil-burning YD class 2-8-2 517 is seen on shed at Mirpur Khas on 18 November 1978.
517 was built by Vulcan Foundry in 1929 (wks #4400), originally for the Assam Bengal Railway., later the Eastern Bengal Railway. On partition it became part of the Pakistan Eastern Railway fleet, before being transferred to the Pakistan Western Railway in 1954 (at that time still known as the North Western Railway).
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Downtown Minneapolis a block or two from the Mississippi River and a block or two north of Hennepin Avenue. This building gets photographed a lot; it sparks the imagination. Much of it is in pretty rough shape but a small part of it has been restored for a housewares store and a some residences.