Hi,
If you visit the Iron Bridge Museum in Shropshire you can see this process
still in operation in the foundry there. The skills have not been
completely lost.
Regards,
Derrick Parsons
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From: Kay & Arthur Lewis [mailto:ak@aklewis.freeserve.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 12:19 AM
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Subject: Re: [Mon] OCCUPATIONS ENQUIRY
L O
At Blaenavon Ironworks there was a pattern makers workshop and the
patternmakers were highly skilled men. I remember the last of them. They
could produce any shape or pattern you would need. ( e.g. I once saw a
wooden ball they made out of solid wood divided into two halves which could
be clipped together. I was amazed at its perfect round shape) The normal
wooden cut pattern would then be pressed into the special sand mould by the
moulder which he would then have filled with molten iron to produce the cast
iron item such as machine parts.
AL
----- Original Message -----
From: Frances & Keith Peacock <kpfap(a)btinternet.com>
To: <MONMOUTHSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 10:19 PM
Subject: [Mon] OCCUPATIONS ENQUIRY
Hi fellow listers,
Can anyone out there offer any further information on the following
occupations. On my great-grandparents' marriage certificate their father's
professions are listed as "Moulder" and "Pattern Maker (or marker)".
I
believe both men were employed in the iron industry / foundries.
Does anyone know what these jobs may have been. Would they have been
skilled workers or labourers.
I know what a moulder in the pottery trade did, would it be the same in a
foundry? They hailed from the Blackwood area.
Thanks in anticipation.
Frances Peacock
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