Museo Italiano Ghisa

We keep and show artifacts that would have been rejected. We are interested in cities' beautification and how to relate industry both to art and design

[Falkirk Cast Iron Made Friends @FalkirkMade]

Ironheart Feeling: The Lady of Shalot and the Sun foundry, an iron sonnet found in North Devon. A George Smith design also seen at the Paisley Coats Fountain. A unique iron memorial bench on the esplanade, all others made of wood.

[Darren McLean @DarrenMcLean_uk]

A fair bit going on here too.

Some high quality cast details.

[Darren McLean @DarrenMcLean_uk]

A cast iron doorway from M Eiffel!

#IronworkThursday

[Fiona Chartres @chartres_Fiona]

Beautiful and delicate door knocker on the mid 17thC courtyard door at Blickling Hall. The tiny horses head looking down and checking that you've wiped your feet as you lift it.
#ironworkthursday

[Falkirk Cast Iron Made Friends @FalkirkMade]

Ironheart Stained Glass: Was fitted on the foundry office at Cruikshank's Denny Foundry now in Falkirk Museum store. The largest ironfoundry in Denny which also had a steel furnace for stainless steel.

[Museo Italiano Ghisa @museoghisa14]

@FalkirkMade To me they look more like steps on a spiral staircase. Can't we see some small columns behind it?

[Dr David Mitchell @DSM888]

For #ironworkthursday some exquisite Buchanan St GLA cast ironwork throwing some shapes in the sun this week.

[5thLackey @5thLackey]

#IronworkThursday @SBlandfo #Lampstandard on the #embankment below #SomersetHouse with added #vermiculation

[Museo Italiano Ghisa @museoghisa14]

@5thLackey I am fascinated to see how on cast iron artifacts we can found similar decorations

[Museo Italiano Ghisa @museoghisa14]

@DSM888 Hallo David,
instructions no 41 and no 42 are very interesting. What's the date of the document?

[Museo Italiano Ghisa @museoghisa14]

That's interesting since Scotland was the cradle of cast iron production

[Falkirk Cast Iron Made Friends @FalkirkMade]

Lost furnaces of Ironheart; The mighty Georgie, the pig iron blast furnace at Carron Co. 'Blown out' c1960 as too much 'pig iron on the ground', in stock, combined with lots of scrap from slum clearances. Probably the last pig iron furnace in Scotland to close.

[LRF Heritage & Education Centre @LRFHEC]

A drawing from May 1912 of how they originally imagined the Titanic's collision with an iceberg 🧊 #ArchiveFind

@explorearchives @ArchiveHashtag @HE_Maritime

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Never forget, if you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan cities for people and places, you get people and places.

Plan for the city you want.

HT @Fred_Kent @PPS_Placemaking

[Museo Italiano Ghisa @museoghisa14]

Arredo & Città https://t.co/bC3mES75IX
Italian and English version

[Museo Italiano Ghisa @museoghisa14]

The symbol of the Trinacria in the center of the flag of Sicily, is also shown on one of the most beautiful cast iron candelabra documented by us in an in-depth research which lasted for several years and recently published in two subsequent issues of the magazine Arredo & Città

[Falkirk Cast Iron Made Friends @FalkirkMade]

The Ironheart & Public Health mural: The Phoenix has arisen waving the flag of Esto Perpetua, the motto of Carron Co. This legendary furnace beast was last seen in Falkirk in 1959, for Carron Co's Bicentennial. This time seen in a Cauldron, a cast iron way of heating water

[5thLackey @5thLackey]

#IronworkThursday @SBlandfo #Accrington #MarketHall 1868-69 by #JohnFDoyle of Liverpool #Ironwork by ##HarropandSomerville of Birmingham Info from #Pevsner

[5thLackey @5thLackey]

#IronworkThursday @SBlandfo more gates, pattern number 74 & railings pattern number 42 from the 3D ironwork catalogue that is #Kircudbright. Again #MacFarlane #Saracen #Foundry products. Also shows the effect of how different paint colours effect the impact of the ironwork.

[Museo Italiano Ghisa @museoghisa14]

A mysterious urban landscape

[Rob Baker @robnitm]

December 1939 - Oxford Street during the blackout - the wiggly lines are pedestrians holding torches - photo Walter Bellamy