Blists Hill Blast Furnaces by artaddict2

Photography • Historical • posted on Nov 08, 2007

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Many of the Town buildings at Blists Hill have been reconstructed or even been moved brick by brick from other locations in the UK for preservation. The site also contains unique remains of its own industrial past. The Blast Furnaces now designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument, were first built here for sond economic reasons; easy transport from the nearby mines on the bank above and further connections to Coalport and the River Severn via the Hay Incline Plane. These are the remains of three Blast Furnaces built by the Madeley Wood Co. in the 1830's and 1840's. Of the Furnaces themselves only the bases remain. They produced pig-iron from iron stone. The pig iron would be used in a foundry as cast iron or in a wrought iron works to be turned into wrought iron. The "blasts of air" came from the two Blowing Engines, these were housed in the Engine houses at the left and right of the three Furnaces. The Blast Furnaces would be running day and night seven days a week and would only shut down for repairs or lack of demand but by 1912 the industry declined and was shut down and the industrial buildings were simply abandoned. By 1918 there is not much more than there is here today. In the 1960's the site was surface mined for Blast furnace slag to be used as hard core for Motorways. The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust undertook repairs during 1970's beginning in 1971 when it took possession of the monument and further repairs were made in 1993-95. Credits- Most Narative from - The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust Ltd.

Comments (18)

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Jofurowa

2:21AM | Thu, 08 November 2007

Nice work on it. Just ... I would have rotated the picture for 4 or 5 degrees to the right.

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mickuk50

2:24AM | Thu, 08 November 2007

i think the old style look of the pic actually helps to take you back to its original day .another excellent shot,info and postwork alan mick

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Georges_H_Hoens

2:33AM | Thu, 08 November 2007

I plainly agree with mick, this is a fantastic shot and testimony of industrial archeology (Its the second time I use the word archeology today)
GREAT SHOT!!!!

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Coppens

3:19AM | Thu, 08 November 2007

Great shot and what a place!

aljaysart

3:42AM | Thu, 08 November 2007

Excellent.

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prionbrain

4:01AM | Thu, 08 November 2007

WOW!!! Awesome!!! Never seen such things before!!!

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JeffG7BRJ

4:22AM | Thu, 08 November 2007

Its a pity they didn't have a scale model of these, to give some idea of the vastness of a blast furnace. Next time we go(yes there will be a next time) we will have to visit the gorge museum, they might have one there. Great pov and composition Alan, I know it's difficult to get a really good shot of this, due to the fairground, you can't get far enough back. You would need a fish eye lens, and neither of us has one. Excellent capture, the slight angle is more than made up for with the excellent narrative. Bravo!!!!!

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