{"id":71399,"date":"2012-12-11T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=71399"},"modified":"2022-12-16T13:45:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T13:45:57","slug":"preparing-sand-bed-for-casting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=71399","title":{"rendered":"Preparing Sand Bed for Casting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"742\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1-06-Preparing-area-for-pigs-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71356\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1-06-Preparing-area-for-pigs-002.jpg 742w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1-06-Preparing-area-for-pigs-002-278x300.jpg 278w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1-06-Preparing-area-for-pigs-002-139x150.jpg 139w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1-06-Preparing-area-for-pigs-002-400x431.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>These two men are preparing the sand runners (sows) and moulds (pigs) to receive the molten Iron from the blast furnace. The man on the left is raking the sand smooth, to the right the man is using a tool known as the &#8216;Worker&#8217; making the mould for the pig. Ed Jones commented: &#8220;This pig-bed sequence may well be the Normanby Ironworks as there is a large travelling crane gantry seen on all the photos and the OS 6\u2033 map (surveyed 1913) shows a travelling crane at those works.&#8221; However knowing the source of all these images as being Skinningrove works, the Archive believes these are the blast furnaces at Skinningrove.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Glass Plate Negative courtesy Dave Mcgill, thanks to Ed Jones for the suggestion.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>These two men are preparing the sand runners (sows) and moulds (pigs) to receive the molten Iron from the blast furnace. The man on the left is raking the sand smooth, to the right the man is using a tool known as the &#8216;Worker&#8217; making the mould for the pig. Ed Jones commented: &#8220;This [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ironsteel-works","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71401,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71399\/revisions\/71401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}