Kleiner Park--fabrication pics

Heavy fabrication is under way!  Last week the big beams were cut & prepared; soon to be welded into place :)

 Each beam is so heavy, it took 2 forklifts together to move it....

Tomorrow I will be picking up the final cut parts, & pieces will start going together!  After so much planning & design work, it soooo exciting to see the real work beginning... more updates to come.

Amber

Group Art Show--Saturday, April 30th

I am taking part in a group art show on Saturday, April 30th: stop in & say hi if you are out & about that evening; should be a fun time.  Live music, art, & great friends  :)  I will have a new creation on display & will be around all eve to chat... 

6-11 pm at the Fulton Street Showroom: 517 S 8th Street

Hope to see you there!

Amber

bricks from the public toilets in Beresford Square Woolwich

We have a note from a council officer working on a project in Woolwich, which he, and we, thought was of interest:

He says:

"I am currently working on the redevelopment of General Gordon and Beresford Squares in Woolwich town centre. In the course of the construction works at Beresford Square the remains of parts of the old Victorian underground toilets on the square were revealed. We have salvaged a small number of bricks from these toilets and the Heritage Centre have agreed to take one of them for their archives. There are still around 7 or 8 of the bricks remaining, if you are aware of anybody who may wish to have one of them please let us know. The bricks were made by the Farnley Iron Co of Leeds and feature a ceramic coating on one side.

Kleiner Park: Fabrication: cutting parts

 Just a few pics from today's adventures in fabrication....  I spent the afternoon at Idaho Custom Ironworks helping to move & load steel plates onto & off of the plasma table: the plates were so heavy, we had to use the crane.

 We got most of the heavy parts cut today; these will be the structural gussets & base plates for the three sculptures; tomorrow, we will finish up, & take a truck-load of cut parts to the fabrication shop.

 This is what happens when you don't have your gloves on & try to move heavy pieces of steel....

The fab shop is going to begin cutting the beams tomorrow....look for more updates then :)

Long day today & my fingers are sore, but I'm really excited to be moving forward.

More updates to come :)

Amber

GHIS Programme for the next year!!

PROGRAMME 2011-12


10th May Duncan Hawkins on Archaeology at Deptford Dockyard

14th June Prof Dave Perrett on Days at the Factories

19th July Rich Sylvester on Making the East Greenwich Map

20th September Ron Bristow on Elliott Automation

11th October Chris Foord on Industries of Barking and Dagenham

15th November John Greig on Greig’s Wharf part II

17th January Jeremy Hodgkinson on Iron Founding in the Weald

21st February John Yeardley on Ropemaking in London

13th March David Cufley on Bricks and local brickmaking

17th April Peter Luck on Sugar & Soap – (site recently known as Amylum)

15th May Diana Rimel on Bazalgette (by popular demand!)

All meetings are held at The Old Bakehouse, Bennett Park, SE3. This is a small theatre in the back of the Age Exchange Shop – which is in The Village opposite Blackheath Station. There is no on site parking – please do not park outside the Bakehouse, but use the car park behind the station. Meetings start at 7.30 and non members are charged £1.
Chair: Sue Bullevant.
Information marymillsmmmmm@aol.com.
Membership Steve Daly, s.daly05@btinternet.com

Kleiner Park: Fabricaton Begins!!!

On Friday, I picked up the new steel for Kleiner Park; for the structural elements, new steel, just from the factory was the best choice.....

Almost overloaded my truck!  The biggest plate weighed over 2000 lbs!

By far; the most new steel I have ever purchased: not going to say how much it cost!  Only this; steel prices have doubled in the last 6 months,  wow... 

But, its all good; parts for the project are being cut & we will be in heavy fabrication next week!  Looking forward to seeing some real progress on the project! 

This is Read; from Idaho Custom Iron Works; he's all happy cuz his new bigger & improved plasma-table is working....mine are the 1st  parts to be cut  :) 

More progress to come: Monday I hope to be picking up all the cut parts to deliver to the fab shop; they have already started cutting beams in prep. to putting parts together.   Before you know it, there will be 3   45' tall  steel structures waiting to be installed!  Very exciting: look for more updates next week :)

Amber

Tully's Coffee

 New work at Tully's: I have one little piece at each location; hopefully soon will be adding more :)



 

Each one is a bit different, but made of similar parts & pieces: all recycled steel stuff, of course...

Take a look next time you stop in for coffee...

I also have a collection of patio sculpture at the BoDo location: 8th street between Front & Myrtle; check it out next time your downtown :)

And at the Tully's in Columbia Village: you will see my funky industrial jewelry :)

Thanks so much Jill for letting me decorate with my my crazy creations, lol

Amber