Finch Foundry, Sticklepath
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Finch Foundry, Sticklepath
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 22 May 2011
This National Trust owned property is actually a forge, not a foundry, and a demonstrator is showing how hot metal is hammered under the country's only working water powered tilt hammer (a tail helve hammer). The hammer shaft and head appear to be a reused shaft and crank assembly. The assembly was installed in 1816 and was secondhand then. It worked until 1960.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.730413
Longitude
-3.925987