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A record of Brighton’s only surviving foundry which is to be demolished to make way for a car park. The film was made using BVHT equipment and edited at Twentieth Century Vixen’s studios.
Shows Peasenhall windmill 1935, Horstead water mill 1950, Epping iron foundry 1950, ships and trains at Mistley Quay 1957, Mistley maltings 1976, Marks Tey brickworks 1976, a disused lime kiln at Snettisham...
Blaber’s Portland Foundry, a working foundry in Brighton, under threat of development, shown at work. Interviews with the foreman and demonstrations of casting and fettling. Filmed March 1989.
Shows the importance of cast iron in engineering, to indicate the various types of cast iron, and to illustrate the casting techniques. Covers grey, malleable, nodular and alloy irons, and illustrates green...
Wooden pattern making, green sand and oil sand moulding, coremaking and casting.*
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