Beans Foundry, Dudley

Following our trip to Brandauer Pressings, we moved on to see Beans Foundry in Dudley. It was industry on a large scale and only closed in 2005 following the demise of Longbridge - their only / main customer.

Reaperman knows more about the history of the place but it was a very interesting explore and even more so, to see how things had rapidly gone downhill in the space of almost exactly 2 years...

photos to follow.

That is so sad to see the plaque commemorating the first and last casting just chucked on the floor like that.
Very interesting explore and pics Mr B.
Btw, were there any long grooves in the foundry floor? The reason I ask is that when I was at art college we had a field trip to a working foundry in Brierly Hill and the molten metal was poured into grooves to make bars. It literally shot along at an extremely fast pace...rather scary but really interesting.

Cheers

mr_bones said:

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Loving that picture! That dated security cabins quite class isnt it?

Good to see you all had a good time - really sorry i couldnt make it


Dave

looking good fatman,
nice pics,
that security bloke looks well dodgy mate,

hehehe, oh yes, he was well dodgy, kept following us around all over the site

Cheers mr b, I'm really glad your pics inside the main foundry building have come out brilliant, mine are just ... well... black Loved this place tho, the place was huge, but wasn't to sure about all those stairs and the high up bits lol There was no way in the world I was gonna look down, attempted it twice, then gave up lol.

I'll just tag my few of the outside on the end of your report (good report btw )

View from the tower over the roof




Small workshop joined onto the main foundry building

Cupboard crammed with books and paperwork


Small office








This is what is left of the main area of the medical centre


and the last one, the Security Cabin


Cheers,

Sal

Hey Mr B, did Indy just call you fatman? What a cheek!

Nice pics Sal, btw.

They didn't turn out too badly Sal, nice one.

Foxylady said:

Hey Mr B, did Indy just call you fatman? What a cheek!

Nice pics Sal, btw.

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Yep it's because of a time when we were at fullers earthworks and he SQUEEZED through a hole in a fence and i was eating a cornish pasty and when i tried i couldn't fit! Could also be because it looks like i have cleavage in my security picture (taken by RM)

after a shitty day, the picture of hot ladies sign cheered me up!

mr_bones said:

Yep it's because of a time when we were at fullers earthworks and he SQUEEZED through a hole in a fence and i was eating a cornish pasty and when i tried i couldn't fit! Could also be because it looks like i have cleavage in my security picture (taken by RM)

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Great pic's everyone - how in the name of all thing rusty did that wheelchair get there?

King Al said:

Great pic's everyone - how in the name of all thing rusty did that wheelchair get there?

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it's from the burnt out medical centre and isn't too sturdy!

Yet another excellent write-up and superb pictures peeps
Gutted that I wimped out of this one now
Still, I managed to spot two abandoned buildings in Bewdley that afternoon without even looking!!
That Security chap looks a bit shifty -hope you didn't get any trouble from him?!!

Lb

Now I know where beans come from

I always feel a degree of sadness when going round such places

skittles said:

Now I know where beans come from

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doesn't look very hygeneic

Lightbuoy said:

That Security chap looks a bit shifty -hope you didn't get any trouble from him?!!

Lb

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I did, he started swearing

Nice report very intresting, quality images to