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The activity of the workers in a small artisanal foundry of aluminium (Madagascar).
From the heart of Madagascar’s highlands comes a craft both timeless and essential.
In this part of the country, small artisanal foundries turn recycled aluminum from cans, scrap metal and bolts into pots, pans and decorative pieces like lemurs, zebus and baobabs.
Artisans melt aluminum in brick furnaces heated by charcoal, pour it into hand-carved sand molds and polish each piece to a brilliant shine.
This tradition began over a century ago when aluminum has been introduced to the town after World War I.
This legacy continues today in family-run workshops.
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If you heard the thump of the big hammers when passing the foundry, it was always worth sticking your head round the door to wonder at work in progress on the red hot steel ingots. Sandaoling coal mining complex, Xinjiang Province, western China.
January 2011 © David Hill
Porth Wen a shingle beach located near Amlwch in Anglesey, north Wales, UK
The old Brickworks are situated here and operated c.1850 -1914
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
Carlshütte, - the old iron foundry where the indoor part of NordArt takes place - is a fantastic old industrial building.
After I've spent some hours to enjoy the art, I always use an hour to explore the building.
Name: Peter Taylor
Arrested for: not given
Arrested at: North Shields
Arrested on: 13 May 1915
Tyne and Wear Archives ref: DX1388-1-260-Peter Taylor
The Shields Daily News for 21 May 1915 reports:
“STEALING AND RECEIVING. MAN AND WOMAN SENT TO PRISON AT NORTH SHIELDS.
At North Shields today, Peter Taylor, a coppersmith, of 26 Whickham Street, Sunderland, was charged with stealing, between February 15th and May 12th, from a foundry in Lawson Street, 28 brass flanges, 25 brass bosses and a quantity of copper pipe ends, valued at £11, the property of James Hogg and Sons and Caroline Allen of 99 Church Street, Monkwearmouth was summoned for feloniously receiving the same, well knowing the same to have been stolen.
Mr P.M. Dodds prosecuted and Mr L. Wolff, of Sunderland, defended the female defendant. Mr P.M. Dodds stated that Taylor had been employed by James Hogg and Sons for three months and during the last two months they had been missing brass and copper from the foundry in Lawson Street. Suspicion fell on Taylor and he was kept under observation.
Det. Mason said that he had drilled a hole in a partition to watch Taylor and at 12.20pm on the 15th inst. he saw him pick up three brass flanges. He put one in his pocket and two down his trousers. He intercepted defendant and when charged he replied “I don’t deny stealing it.” Defendant also said he sold the brass and copper to defendant Allen. He did not know how much he had stolen, but Allen said she would buy anything up to an anchor. Witness then went to Sunderland and charged Allen, and she said Taylor had been telling lies, as she did not know they were stolen. She admitted buying flanges etc. from Allen, about four times a week, and she sold them to a Gateshead store.
John Hearn, foreman for James Hogg and Sons, went to Gateshead with Det. Mason and identified some flanges and copper. Taylor pleaded guilty and Allen not guilty. Mr Wolff then submitted there was no case against Allen, on the ground that she had not a guilty knowledge.
The magistrates committed Taylor to prison for three months and Allen for one month in the second division. The Mayor (Counc. H. Gregg) said that if it was not for the likes of Allen, Taylor would not be in the position he was in.”
These images are taken from an album of photographs of prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court between 1902 and 1916 (TWAM ref. DX1388/1). This set is our selection of the best mugshots taken during the First World War. They have been chosen because of the sharpness and general quality of the images. The album doesn’t record the details of each prisoner’s crimes, just their names and dates of arrest.
In order to discover the stories behind the mugshots, staff from Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums visited North Shields Local Studies Library where they carefully searched through microfilm copies of the ‘Shields Daily News’ looking for newspaper reports of the court cases. The newspaper reports have been transcribed and added below each mugshot.
Combining these two separate records gives us a fascinating insight into life on the Home Front during the First World War. These images document the lives of people of different ages and backgrounds, both civilians and soldiers. Our purpose here is not to judge them but simply to reflect the realities of their time.
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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.