Top to bottom look at Ironheart: Falkirk area's cast iron aid to public health and social revolutions. Edited Dr Duncan Comrie Secretary Falkirk Made Friends
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The Ironheart frypan sizzling on an Aga hot plate. The only cast iron frypan made in Britain today using traditional green sand hand moulding skills. Skills that originated from Abraham Darby's Coalbrookdale foundry & first made on a large scale in Falkirk by Carron Co from 1759
Going to a @PunchJudy show at the Scottish mask & puppet theatre. Seems an odd thing to do, but suits the times.... mibbie. These puppets were made by a Gorbals iron foundry worker, poss patternmaker? c1930
Spotted this classic GPO Postman bicycle brought in for the next sale at the Bo'ness Auction Co sale, Monday 6pm 17th Feb 2025
An Ironheart in Melbourne: Sir Robert Gibson Feb pinup FMF 2025 calendar; Started Lux Cooker foundry c1908. With John Monash on SECV developing hydro & brown coal electricity power stations. Notorious saviour as chair of Nat bank of Australia in 1930s crash... Solid
An Ironheart Anniversary: On this day 98 years ago Carron Co won the first GPO competitive tender to supply 500 K2 cast iron telephone kiosks for use in London. A handy public service used to call for help, in this case: 'Doctor', the Daleks are here, or 'beam me up Scotty'.
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#IronworkThursday We are delighted to have returned the restored fountain to Zetland Park, Falkirk. Category C listed and was in a very incomplete state LB52399
Thank you to all involved, sculptors, our patternmaker, foundry, engineers & craftsmen.
@ZetlandPKRegen #HESsupported
ALT The final stages of the ironwork installation, and the weather was kind to us !
ALT Just one of the carved patterns that helped recreate the missing components. This one is for the top column and is a scaled replica of the lower original column.
ALT The underside of the new replacement cast iron top bowl, illustrating the woven ivy leaf design scaled from the lower bowl.
ALT 3D render of the dilapidated and incomplete fountain. Courtesy of Morris and Steedman Associates.
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For your viewing pleasure - a selection of our benches - the UK's best selection of heritage and historic bench designs. Suitable for private gardens or public spaces wher something a little different would be a beautiful thing!
An Ironheart - Falkirk Area Iron Industry - Trade Union image: Imagine, a workplace partnership as in the Arthur Henderson ideal...
The metal suit of Ned Kelly, c1870s, Bushranger and National Hero. Seen in Victoria Library, Melbourne. Way ahead of the game in gunfight personal armour.
Ironheart Calender 2025 January image: The Carron Co cast iron made Bruce Obelisk aka Falkirk's Taj Mahal lost love token c1790. Design John and Robert Adam style.
The 2025 Falkirk Made Friends calendar, the images theme is Ironheart Legends. The cover is a delicate zodiac design cast iron table top made by Falkirk Iron Co c1900. The table is in the collection of Falkirk Museum.
The art of the Ironheart Carron Bathrooms bathtub: The modern day Carronade, the tough cleaners the Carronites, extra thick baths with a 40 year guarantee
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If you email [email protected] with the details (& a photo) it will hopefully get scheduled for a repaint
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These type B (small) pillar boxes might look the same at a glance, but take another look at the base - they have different manufacturers! Falkirk iron foundry Carron took over making these boxes in 1922. The larger Type As stayed with McDowall Steven, however #postboxsaturday
Engineering ARt: Part of a thoughtful photo collage seen in the Modern Art Gallery 1, Edinburgh. Called Approach to Fear III Taboo Demystify, by Alexis Hunter. Or the art in getting your hands greasy...
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Ever heard a thumping noise as your train pulls into the platform? You've likely just heard a flat spot on one of the wheels.
Emergency stops and slippery rails cause the wheels to lock-up and slide along the rail, grinding them down.
This is how we get them back in shape.
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Interested in an engineering/ science-based Modern Apprenticeship? We might just have the course for you. Applications are now open to the INEOS Programme, starting in Summer 2025. For more information visit ineosopportunities.co.uk/job…
Allied Ironfounders legends: EM Forster, the novelist was singed by Virginia Wolf's new Apollo stove, Monk's house, c1938, & riposted: Oh hearth benign! oh decent glow My trousers blackened down below Accuse not thee but praise the zest Which burns the host before the guest.
