Dear List,
There has been a request from Brian Durham about the site plan of Lucy
Foundry in Oxford. The file containing the plan is at
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/ARCH-METALS/Lucy_foundry_1878.pdf
The text on the plan is not easily legible, but should read
Farrier's shop, top left
Smith's shop, main room of upper part of plan
Foundry, lower large room
Engine Ho., left below Farrier's shop
?Cast? Drying Room, right of Engine Ho.
Brian's questions are below -
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Hi
I wonder if anyone can help on a question of industrial architecture.
The attached pdf illustrates a foundry built beside the Oxford canal in
1878. Its ground plan has influenced the development of the works ever
since, and likewise the plan of the residential development that will
replace it shortly.
What interests me is
1. could there be remains of machine bases that can be predicted from
this plan?
2. Is it possible that this was a pattern-book factory, because its
regular layout fits awkwardly into the irregular site.
3. If so, does anyone recognise it from elsewhere, maybe in the
Midlands on the same canal system? Like a church, it might be possible
to find original structure at first floor level, underbuilt in
subsequent changes.
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Any comments.
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Chris Salter,
Oxford Materials Characterisation Service,
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Material Science-based Archaeology Group,
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Electron Microscopy Research Support Group,
Oxford University Begbroke Science Park,
Sandy Lane, Yarnton, Oxford, OX5 1PF
Tel 01865 283722, EPMA 283741, Mobile 07776031608
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