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Description: | Photograph of a drawing of Old Hill Blast Furnaces and Ironworks. This shows a view of the Pig Yard from the canal bridge. It was called a Pig Yard because it was referring to the pig iron that was made there. Pig iron was so called because the process for making the iron involved pouring the molten iron from the furnace into spine-shaped moulds (to the left of the photograph) that resembled a mother pig (the main spine) with young pigs (the protruding spines). The photograph also shows the office of Hingley & Son Ltd. The drawing also clearly shows the high level of pollution caused by such a huge number of chimneys. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Dudley Archives | Rights holder: | Mrs. M. Chapman | Subjects: | Blast furnaces | Temporal: | c1915 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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