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Howling TerrorOutOfOffice
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PostPosted: 16:28 - 28 Aug 2009    Post subject: Didn't go beyond the gates Reply with quote
Today i was in Chirk (wales) And saw these.

Nearly 300yrs old
How did they make them? I mean how did they weld them?
I think they look great...checkout the red hand.

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PostPosted: 16:35 - 28 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
7 years to make Shocked

Tell you what though, the quality is not bad, most would have rusted away by now Laughing
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PostPosted: 16:58 - 28 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
They aren't welded as such, they are forged. Lots of heat, lots of hammering.
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PostPosted: 17:04 - 28 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
..jesus thats hard graft combined with artistry. Bloody 'ell us Brits were good eh?

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PostPosted: 06:38 - 29 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Not really that great, they are placed across a road with a concrete pillar in the middle. How the hell can you drive through them Laughing
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PostPosted: 09:19 - 29 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
They seem to lean to the right quite baddly.
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PostPosted: 10:20 - 29 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
kwaker6r wrote:
Not really that great, they are placed across a road with a concrete pillar in the middle. How the hell can you drive through them Laughing


You dont. They're actually part of a private garden on the other side of them now.

Entrance to the castle site is to the left of them.
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PostPosted: 12:20 - 29 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Very Ornate. In the days when realy sweat and blood where put into things.
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PostPosted: 13:29 - 29 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
fjrat wrote:
kwaker6r wrote:
Not really that great, they are placed across a road with a concrete pillar in the middle. How the hell can you drive through them Laughing


You dont. They're actually part of a private garden on the other side of them now.

Entrance to the castle site is to the left of them.


Exactly, so in all honesty they are useless, like the throw pillows women insist on covering beds with Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 14:00 - 29 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
1930 Ariel wrote:
They seem to lean to the right quite baddly.


I think the photographer is lopsided.
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PostPosted: 15:17 - 29 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
kwaker6r wrote:
Exactly, so in all honesty they are useless, like the throw pillows women insist on covering beds with Rolling Eyes


Useless? Philistine!

Preservation - keeping them so 300 years on from when they were built they could still be seen by all, appreciating the craftmaship in the 18th century - no CNC then.

Doubt my gates will see 30 years, never mind 300.

Agree with the pillows though Thumbs Up
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Kwaks
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PostPosted: 15:30 - 29 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
fjrat wrote:
kwaker6r wrote:
Exactly, so in all honesty they are useless, like the throw pillows women insist on covering beds with Rolling Eyes


Useless? Philistine!

Preservation - keeping them so 300 years on from when they were built they could still be seen by all, appreciating the craftmaship in the 18th century - no CNC then.

Doubt my gates will see 30 years, never mind 300.

Agree with the pillows though Thumbs Up


Though what is the point of gates across the road if cars/carriages cannot pass? Surely they are relegated to the status of a fence Wink
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PostPosted: 03:17 - 31 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
SoND wrote:
1930 Ariel wrote:
They seem to lean to the right quite baddly.


I think the photographer is lopsided.

I had a stiffy....i apologise

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PostPosted: 08:59 - 31 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
did you know buckingham palaces gates were made in bromsgrove

the company i work for bought the building in the 70s and before we moved the room they were made in was our exhaust room

if anyone knows the area its just down the hill from the police station
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PostPosted: 11:05 - 31 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
andyscooter wrote:
did you know buckingham palaces gates were made in bromsgrove

the company i work for bought the building in the 70s and before we moved the room they were made in was our exhaust room

if anyone knows the area its just down the hill from the police station


You don't work at MF by any chance?
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PostPosted: 18:01 - 31 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Howling Terror wrote:
I had a stiffy....i apologise

Pat


Ok, cool. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 18:45 - 01 Sep 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
fireblade2102 wrote:
andyscooter wrote:
did you know buckingham palaces gates were made in bromsgrove

the company i work for bought the building in the 70s and before we moved the room they were made in was our exhaust room

if anyone knows the area its just down the hill from the police station


You don't work at MF by any chance?


i does Laughing well i attend every day anyway Wink
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PostPosted: 08:52 - 02 Sep 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Did anyone else think the title of the thread was a rather quaint euphemism for a near death experience?
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PostPosted: 17:12 - 02 Sep 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Awww not Death again Laughing
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