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Tamping Sand, Head Wrightsons c1940s

Posted on April 6, 2023 by Picture Stockton Team

I believe these men are tamping sand around a mould ready for casting at Head Wrightsons. My father-in-law Thomas William Heslop is second from the left on the back row.

Photograph and details courtesy of Judy Heslop.

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Dr Fred Starr on April 13, 2023 at 2:56 pm said:

Aren’t they tamping sand around the pattern, to give the form of the mould?

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