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The Pattern-making Shop

Here you can listen to memories of the Pattern-making Shop. Here Pattern-makers would make "patterns" which were wooden models of the castings that were made in the Foundry. Patterns were crucial to the making of castings in the Foundry. The pattern would be made in wood to the shape of the piece that needed to be cast. Foundrymen would then use them to shape the Foundry's sand into which molten metal would be poured to create the casting. Pattern-makers were generally regarded as one of the most highly-skilled workers.

  • Bob Madeley remembers rats in the Pattern Shop in the late 1930s

    Bob Madeley remembers rats in the Pattern Shop in the late 1930s

    And how the Pattern Makers dealt with them...
  • Lionel Longney remembers the Pattern-making Shop, 1945-1949

    Lionel Longney remembers the Pattern-making Shop, 1945-1949

    Memories of the "beautiful craft of pattern-making"
  • Photograph of the Pattern Shop

    Photograph of the Pattern Shop

    View taken inside the Pattern Shop, c.1956
  • Stan Nash

    Stan Nash

    Apprentice pattern-maker 1934-1939
  • William "Bill" Prior

    William "Bill" Prior

    Pattern-maker and foreman 1916-1949
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