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Manche Ecken der ehemaligen Eisengießerei Carlshütte erinnern noch heute an die frühere industrielle Nutzung. Die Carlshütte nahm 1827 in Rendsburg-Büdelsdorf ihren Betrieb als Eisenwerk auf und bestand bis 1997 als Eisengießerei fort. In den ehemaligen Werkshallen mit einer Innenfläche von 22.000 m² sowie im angrenzenden Park mit weiteren 80.000 m² zeigt nun seit 1999 die NordArt in jedem Sommer Werke von ausgewählten zeitgenössischen Künstlern aus aller Welt.
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Some corners of the former Carlshütte iron foundry still remind us of its former industrial use. The Carlshütte began operations as an ironworks in Rendsburg-Büdelsdorf in 1827 and continued to operate as an iron foundry until 1997. In the former factory halls with an interior area of 22,000 m² and in the adjacent park with a further 80,000 m², NordArt has been showing works by selected contemporary artists from all over the world every summer since 1999.
Taken around 1998 on a Rolleiflex 2.8F TLR, I rediscovered these negatives during my ongoing lockdown tidying. It was taken at the Lister Petter Foundry in Dursley, Gloucestershire. The site has since been redeveloped as the Littlecombe estate, also home to the Vale Community Hospital.
This is the interior view of the upper (fourth) level of the Arbed Steel Works at the Terres Rouges industrial site on the French-Luxembourg border. The building dates from 1900-1920. It was taken at sunset. I left this place covered head to toe in red iron ore dust...
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Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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This was recently chosen as one of 2009's best abandoned photos by the Flickr Blog! Thank you so much for this honor!
This clock tower is all that remains of one of Europes largest Iron Companies At its peak it employed over one thousand people and played a major role around the world supplying artilary that was used in the Battle of Waterloo , Trafalgar and the American Civil War to name a few . James Watt made his first steam engine here . Henry Shrapnel invented a new exploding munitions shell . And not forgetting the consumer market with a range of fire places stoves and baths and other products . The company had its own shipping fleet and coal mines and show rooms all over the world
James Hoyle & Son Ltd. foundry, Andrews Road, Hackney.
Almost all the former light industries in Hackney have long since departed - the cabinetmakers of Shoreditch, the chemical works in Hackney Wick, the garment makers of Hackney Central. But this foundry overlooking the Regents Canal is still here.
It was created on the premises of the former Józef John Iron Foundry from the 19th century (1866), Łódź, Poland.
The photo shows the warehouse of the former foundry after modernization, integrated with a new apartment building. In the space of the former iron foundry, a cultural and entertainment complex, offices, services and gastronomy was created. Łódź contrasts.
The Ross Fountain is a fine example of 19th century French cast-iron work It was sculpted by artist Jean-Baptiste Jules Klagmann and created by Antoine Durenne in his iron foundry in Sommevoire, Haut Marne, France.
The inscription that can be seen on the fountain reads:
"A Durenne / Maître de Forges / À / Sommevoire H. Marne"
It was exhibited in London at the Great Exhibition of 1852. It was seen there by Edinburgh gun maker, Daniel Ross, who purchased it and gifted it to the city of Edinburgh, where it was installed in its present position in 1872.
A major £1.9 million restoration of the fountain was carried out from July 2017, when it was dismantled and the 122 pieces removed for the restoration, which was carried out in Wigan. It was completed and replaced by July 2018.
Sources:
Edinburgh World Heritage, description of the restoration from 2017 to 2018
Wikipedia description of The Ross Fountain
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What a cracking cover to this booklet describing the properties and scientific research applicable to the "Blaydon foundry coke" manufactured by the Priestman Collieries at Blaydon-on-Tyne, a little upstream from Newcastle. Coal is not 'just' coal but different types and seams have differing properties and some, such as for foundry coke, are better than others depending on factors such as structure, ash and sulphur content and calorific value.
This little booklet shows the details of this specific coke as well as showing some of the laboratory and testing processes that Priestman, obviously a very organised and scientific concern, undertook to ensure the product supplied was consistant. It includes a copy of a letter, dated 1929, from a 'satisfied customer' for Blaydon Burn Coke - this being one Sir W G Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd. Although there is an agency cipher "CT" sadly no designer is given for this splendid illustration of iron foundry work and casting - it is always wonderful to see such industrial subjects in advertising art.
The water to turn the wheel enters at the top left of the wheel and is controlled by a sluice on the man made cistern above
The unrequired excess overflows down the chute on the far side of the wheel, returning it to the river.
I'm not 100% sure but I think the coloured paint marks are an indication of sewers having been treated with mosquito larvae killer.
Once the west Nile virus started showing up in Ontario, municipalities started spraying larvae killer into areas they believed might harbour eggs (i.e. standing water).
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From the c1938 catalogue issued by the Tipton based Revo Electric, one of the UK's largest manufacturers of street lighting equipment.
These were the days when, frequently, each local authority had their 'own' design of street lamp columns and the name was often used to designate the type - although sometimes I suspect names were just 'chosen'! Here we have the Eastbourne, Moseley, Worthing and Broadwater. These are all 'side street' or Class B road columns as they vary between 10 and 13ft in height.
The Eastbourne was certainly used in that seaside town and indeed, in 2022, several of this pattern still survive with swan neck brackets and modern LED lanterns. The Moseley possibly dates from before incorporation into the City of Birmingham but this column is oddly one of the most widespread you will find as the pattern appears to have been used for decades, as one of Revo/Relite's last castings, as well as having been used as the basis of manufacturing many modern 'heritage' street lamps.
A view across the Mississippi River in Almonte, Ontario, Canada.
The stone building across the river was built in 1887 and known at the time as Mississippi Iron Works, yet originally known as the Young Brothers Foundry.
This company manufactured custom parts and machines for the various woollen mills in and around Almonte.
Today, it is known as the Barley Mow Pub.
An advert from the very well produced GKN Staff Magazine "Far and Wide" that appears to have been issued in the immediate post-WW2 period. Guest Keen & Nettlefold, better known as GKN, were at the time a major British industrial conglomerate based around the iron, steel and fixings business. Their roots went back as far as 1759 in Dowlais, south Wales, but the company's joint foundations went back to 1900 when Guest & Keen merged. In 1906 they acquired Nettlefolds of Birmingham, and over the coming decades they acquired significant holdings in allied industries, moving into tool making and component manufacturing. One major acquisition came in 1920 when the steel and iron concern of John Lysaght was purchased. Despite many reorganisations and divestitures they still exist.
The magazine contains various full page adverts for group and associated companies. This is for Beans Industries, a fascinating Tipton based company who had at one time been involved in car and commercial vehicle production. After this venture did not survive the depression, nor the financial input of the Hadfield steel company, it was relaunched in 1933 to make castings and drop forgings and in post war years it became part of Standard-Triumph and therefore British Leyland. As can be seen in this fine advert the company did effectively specialise in motor vehicle components.
One area of the company did form part of GKN, the Smethwick Drop Forging concern that had been again formed by Hadfields in 1933, and that GKN acquired in 1963.