Foundry Collection (#8)

Bell Foundry, Germany, ca. 1874. Creator: Walter Shirlaw
Bell Foundry, Germany, ca. 1874

Foundry at Canon, 1792. Creator: John Baptist Malchair
Foundry at Canon, 1792

The Foundry, 1870s-80s. Creator: Louis Lafon
The Foundry, 1870s-80s

A bell founder, 16th century Germany
The interior of a 16th century German bell foundry

Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield 1871
Various scene inside the government-owned rifle factory, Royal Small-Arms Factory, Enfield. Date: 1871

Steam Boiler Making at Vulcan Foundry, Glasgow 1843
Construction of a large steam boiler for a boat at the Vulcan Foundry, Clyde, Glasgow. A large pair of bellows stands at the front of the scene. Date: 1843

Pouring metal into mould in a pit. Date: 1840s

Finishing the core 1840s
Finishing the core, the crook. Date: 1840s

Casting small bells 1840s
Pouring metal into mould. Date: 1840s

Foundry or casting-house at Butterley Iron-works 1845
Furnace at the foundry at Butterley Iron-works in Derbyshire. Date: 1845

Low Moor - Ironworks 1856
Exterior of the Ironworks foundry in West Yorkshire. Date: 1856

Cornwall TR27 4 Map
Postcode Sector Map of Cornwall TR27 4

Metal Factory
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Two Men Working in a Steel Mill
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Fireman
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BELL FOUNDRY
Bell making : pouring molten steel into the space between the core and the mould. Date: 1950s

Poughkeepsie, and its Founderies at Night, 1874. Creator: Harry Fenn
Poughkeepsie, and its Founderies at Night, 1874. Industrial scene and panorama of the city of Poughkeepsie on the Hudson River in New York State, USA

Foundry worker Blists Hill
Iron furnace worker Grahan Collins takes a breather at Blists Hill Ironworks, Ironbridge, Shropshire. First published The Sunday Correspondent Date: 1990

Forging the Anchor, 1892. Creator: Unknown
Forging the Anchor, 1892. Scene in a foundry, men hammering a ships anchor. After a painting in the Colchester and Ipswich Museums Collection. From " Modern Art Monographs"

View of Foundry, Southwark Street, 1909. Creator: Unknown
View of Foundry, Southwark Street, 1909. From " The British Printer Vol. XXII". [Raithby, Lawrence & Co. Ltd, London and Leicester, 1909]

Dalziel Foundry Limited. - Earl Street Premises. Finishers and Sundry Finishing Plant, 1909. From " The British Printer Vol. XXII". [Raithby, Lawrence & Co. Ltd, London and Leicester, 1909]

Progress in Typefounding - The Blackfriars Type Foundry, 1909. Creator: Unknown
Progress in Typefounding - The Blackfriars Type Foundry, 1909. From " The British Printer Vol. XXII". [Raithby, Lawrence & Co. Ltd, London and Leicester, 1909]

The old iron scales at Slussen, Stockholm, c. 1820-30 (oil on canvas)
3106579 The old iron scales at Slussen, Stockholm, c.1820-30 (oil on canvas) by Julin, Johan Fredrik (1798-1843); 54x74 cm; Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

National Foundry of Ruelle, 1787 (w / c on paper)
2562878 National Foundry of Ruelle, 1787 (w/c on paper) by French School, (18th century); Service Historique de l Armee de Terre, Vincennes, France; (add.info.: National foundry of Alley); French

Map of the royal forge and the new projects of Ruelle, near Angouleme, 1786 (pencil
2562861 Map of the royal forge and the new projects of Ruelle, near Angouleme, 1786 (pencil & w/c on paper) by French School

Work in an Iron Foundry and Smithy During The Period of the Middle Ages, c1934. Illlustration showing iron founding and tool-making

The Foundry at Swindon Works, c1917
The Foundry at Swindon Works. On the right is seen a cyclinder casting suspended by a travelling crane, c1917. From How It is Made, by Archibald Williams

Steel Rolling, c1917. From How It is Made, by Archibald Williams. [Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York]

Men pouring molten metal in a foundry, School of Engineering and Navigation, London, 1931
Men pouring molten metal into a cast/mold in a foundry, School of Engineering and Navigation, London, 1931

Part of the dwelling house of Sir Christopher Wren, Southwark, London, 1820. Artist
Part of the dwelling house of Sir Christopher Wren, Southwark, London, 1820. View as seen through the opening of the gates of the iron foundry in which was cast the ironwork for St Pauls Cathedral

View of the Great Peter of York bell, 1845. Artist: AR Grieve
View of the Great Peter of York bell, 1845. View of the bell cast by Charles and George Mears at the Bell Foundry, no. 267 Whitechapel Road

Pattern maker, Wombwell Foundry, South Yorkshire, 1963. Artist: Michael Walters
Pattern maker, Wombwell Foundry, South Yorkshire, 1963. A pattern maker constructs a wooden replica of the part which needs to be cast in steel. A mould for the cast is then made from the pattern

Forging at the foundry of AT Green & Sons Ltd, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1963. Impression die forging pounds or presses metal between two dies (called tooling)

Overview of the bar mill at the Brightside Foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1964. View showing the capstan in the foreground

The Foundry, Uppermill, Saddleworth, England
The Foundry, Uppermill, Saddleworth, near Oldham/Marsden, Lancashire, England. Date: 1920s

MET DE BLES, Henri. Copper mines
MET DE BLES, Henri (1480-1550). Landscape with coppper mines. Detail of the foundry. 16th century. Renaissance art. Oil on wood. CZECH Rep.. Prague. National Gallery in Prague

PITTSBURGH: FOUNDRY. Men striking pig iron molds at a foundry in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Stereograph, c1910

Foundry workers, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
The moulders at Robert Warners Foundry, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, in a group photo outside the moulding shop. The large gear wheels were used in the manufacture of water pumps for which the foundry

View of Swindon Works, c1980s
This photograph was taken from St Marks Church and shows J Shop (Iron Foundry) to the left and R Shop in the centre. R Shop is now houses STEAM Museum of the GWR

68005 is not an ex-BR engine, rather a standard Austerity, built by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn (7169) in 1945. 47493 was built in 1927 by Vulcan Foundry ltd, at Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire

A Blacksmiths Shop. From a print by Richard Earlom, after a painting by English artist Joseph Wright of Derby. 18th century

Sectional view of a puddling furnace (3), hard rollers (5, 6) and various small foundry tools. Dated 19th century

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