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Built in 1882 along the French Creek, the foundry of Phoenix Iron & Steel Company poured iron castings well into the 1970’s and is considered Phoenixville’s and Northern Chester County’s most important symbol of the town’s illustrious industrial past.
Front cover of a published trade catalogue produced by Kirkintilloch's Lion Foundry Co Ltd. The Foundry produced decorative and architectural cast iron products from 1880-1984. (Archive reference GD10/7/1/1/3)
Week 6: Political
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The former Crane factory in Nacton Road is being pulled down to make way for a Waitrose/John Lewis store the creation of the Futura Business Park.
The cannon foundry Jaigarh Fort had a massive wind tunnel that sucked air from the high mountains into its furnace creating temperatures as high as 2400 °F, the heated air would melt the metal. The molten metal would fill a reservoir chamber and pass into a cannon mold in the casting pit.
On October 20, 2013, Brooks members visited the Lugar Foundry in Arlington, TN–a remarkable combination of studios, workshops, and sculpture garden. Here they learned about lost-wax casting, wandered through an enchanting grove of bamboo, and to met the talented Lugar family.