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In the Lancashire forge, from the mid-19th century, you can experience how the work was done at the hearth and you can see the enormous dimensions of the tools. The large hammer in ...
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The Lancashire forge was originally part of the Iron and Steel exhibition which was one of the museum's first exhibitions which opened when the building was completed in 1936. The exhibition was expanded in the early 1970s with another hearth. In connection with the exhibition Ferrum - Swedish iron and steel through the ages - replacing the previous exhibition in 1997, the section of the exhibition on Lancashire forges was updated and modernised. Together with Gruvan, these are the oldest exhibitions that the museum has left of the original ones from the 1930s.
The exhibition shows two Lancashire hearths where the pig-iron from a blast furnace was decarbonized into a finished iron loop. The iron could then be forged in such a shingling hammer as shown in the exhibition.
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