Metalworks Collection

Making and working with metals

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Lead smelt mills Collection
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Steelworks Collection
42 Images

Hand bells DP130732
Whitechapel Bell Foundry, 32-34 Whitechapel Road, Tower Hamlets, London. Interior, hand bell blanks

Hand bells DP130731
Whitechapel Bell Foundry, 32-34 Whitechapel Road, Tower Hamlets, London. Interior, hand bell blanks

Foundrymen of James Hews Ironmongers CC97_02752
King Street, Maidenhead, Berkshire. The foundrymen of James Hews the Ironmonger s, standing in the yard of their work premises with various iron pipes in the background. Photographed by Henry Taunt

Austin Motor Plant EPW047811
AUSTIN MOTOR PLANT, Longbridge, Birmingham. Aerial view of the car production plant in June 1935. Much of the manufacture at this time would have been the Austin 7. Aerofilms Collection (see Links)

Axeheads DP175985
Beehive Works, Milton Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Detail of a pile of freshly-sharpened axe heads

Waste metal DP086002
EMR Swindon Scrap Metal Yard, Gipsy Lane, Swindon. Detail of a pile of waste metal and vehicle parts in the scrap yard

Waste metal DP086001
EMR Swindon Scrap Metal Yard, Gipsy Lane, Swindon. General view of the scrap yard, with a material handling machine at work on top of a pile of waste metal and scrapped vehicles

Demolition of Lynemouth works 28909_037
Lynemouth Aluminium Smelter, Northumberland, 2016. The partially demolished Alcan works with chimneys still intact. NZ2989

Dudley blast furnaces OP02658
Blast furnace, Russells Hall, Dudley, West Midlands, 1859. Mr Mills, dilute albumen print. Mr Mills, otherwise unknown as a photographer, recorded the blast furnaces at Russells Hall, west of Dudley

Crewe Locomotive Works OP03599
Crewe Locomotive Works, Forge Street, Crewe, Cheshire. From the L G Fisher Collection, photographed in 1910. A man in a laboratory estimating carbon in a sample of steel

Crewe Locomotive Works OP03587
Crewe Locomotive Works, Forge Street, Crewe, Cheshire. From the L G Fisher Collection, photographed in 1910. Dissolution of a sample of steel for carbon estimation in a laboratory

Crucible DP130769
Whitechapel Bell Foundry, 32-34 Whitechapel Road, Tower Hamlets, London. Interior, loading the travelling crucible, used for pouring molten bronze into moulds

Letter stamps DP130749
Whitechapel Bell Foundry, 32-34 Whitechapel Road, Tower Hamlets, London. Interior detail of stamps for shaping words into moulds

Bell foundry DP130590
Whitechapel Bell Foundry, 32-34 Whitechapel Road, Tower Hamlets, London. Exterior showing bells in the courtyard. The foundry has been operating on these premises since 1739

Cummins Engine Factory DP100836
Cummins Engine Factory, Yarm Road, Darlington, County Durham. Constructed 1964-5. Designed by Kevin Roche, John Dinkerloo and Associates. General view of front elevation in Cor Ten steel

Cornish tin smelting works EPW009899a
Cornish Tin Company Smelting Works. Believed to be Seleggan Works or East Wheal Basset Smelting Works, Redruth, Cornwall. This was the largest tin smelter that Cornwall possessed

Crewe Locomotive Works OP03596
Crewe Locomotive Works, Forge Street, Crewe, Cheshire. Pouring molten metal into moulds to cast chairs. From the L G Fisher Collection, photographed in 1910

Swarf DP130724
Whitechapel Bell Foundry, 32-34 Whitechapel Road, Tower Hamlets, London. Interior detail of the hand bell tuning workshop - swarf from tuning on lathe

Letter stamps DP130747
Whitechapel Bell Foundry, 32-34 Whitechapel Road, Tower Hamlets, London. Interior, stamps for shaping words into moulds

J. W. Evans, overalls N030030
J. W. EVANS, Birmingham, West Midlands. Interior view of silversmiths factory. No.57 Jackson Rear Room. View of two overalls

J. W. Evans, sample card N030029
J. W. EVANS, Birmingham, West Midlands. Silversmiths factory. Detailed view of a sample card found in Jacksons Workshop

J. W. Evans, sample card N080109
J. W. EVANS, Birmingham, West Midlands. Silversmiths factory. Detail of sample card. Number 54 first floor, Blue Room

J. W. Evans N030024
J.W.EVANS, Birmingham, West Midlands. Silversmiths factory. Interior view. Storage shelves along the side of the first floor lobby between the old stock room and fly press room 2 - number 55

J. W. Evans N030023
J.W.EVANS, Birmingham, West Midlands. Silversmiths factory. Interior detail of wooden drawers and shelves in the first floor old stock warehouse - number 55

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