Foundry workers

Date: [ca 1950s?]

From: Cable Price Downer :Photographs of factories and products supplied by A & G Price Limited.

By: McKay, Barry, active 1950s-1980s

Reference: PAColl-D-0454

Description: View of a foundry worker operating an electric arc furnace at A & G Price's steel foundry at Thames Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 400 x 500 mm mounted

Date: [ca 1914-1970s]

From: Cable Price Downer :Photographs of factories and products supplied by A & G Price Limited.

Reference: PAColl-D-0452

Description: Line up of foundry workers at Senior Foundry Ltd, Auckland. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 2 x 145 x 590 mm mounted

Date: 04, 13 and 17 Dec 2002 - 04 Dec 2002 - 17 Dec 2002

From: Harbour-Tyne Streets oral history project, stage I and part of stage II

By: Gillies, Andrew Bernard, 1925-2019

Reference: OHInt-0800-06

Description: Born in Oamaru, 1925. Talks about immediate family. Recalls going to Oamaru South School and then Waitaki Boys High School - talks about not liking school and getting the cane. Discusses leaving school at sixteen and going to work at G.T. Gillies - discusses feelings about working for the family business. Discusses father's reasons for purchasing the foundry - talks about father's interests in engineering. Mentions father purchasing the North Otago Engineering Company on Tyne Street, which later became the G.T. Gillies foundry. Describes the operation of the furnaces at the foundry. Discusses the process of importing pig iron - refers to the foundry's use of the Oamaru Port. Talks about starting in the foundry at the age of eighteen - details the type of work he did, the goods manufactured by the foundry, and the move towards producing their own products. Mentions Reid and Gray of Dunedin, J. Burnside and A.P. Scott, Osbournes, Shacklock and Radiation of Dunedin. Discusses the World War II compaign and G.T. Gillies involvement in producing materials. Recalls how father purchased a number of ex-American army GNC trucks - details what the trucks were used for. Talks about beginning work on the munitions. Talks about the women who worked in the factory - recalls the foundry being taken to court by the Moulders Union for allowing women to work on moulding machines. Mentions co-workers Ned Dickson, Barry Rooney and Duncan McPhail. Describes what the foundry looked like - mentions shops in Tees Street - recalls that the street had a baker, two grocers, and a butcher. Talks about the development of ductile iron - also mentions the development of different ferrous alloys and heat resistant irons. Discusses the use of computers at G.T. Gillies. Describes the Tyne Street looked like during his childhood. Recalls watching stock being loaded onto trains. Mentions Brice Christie and Burnside. Talks about exporting rabbit pelts and carcasses and the government putting an end to this - mentions Joe Dwyer and Norman Bee. Mentions 'Lofty Carter' and his clinker built boat. Mentions the Northern Hotel, Miss Edgad, Bunty Irvine, and Mrs Jean Milne who ran the Criterion Hotel. Discusses the 'sly grogging' that went on in the area during prohibition and how it was carried out. Recalls the baker McPherson, Tommy Clarke and George Carey, the proprietor of the Criterion Hotel all being caught sly grogging. Mentions local characters Tom Garstang, Tyne Street's 'Trader Horne' and 'Tar Pot Mary'. Mentions the Customs House and the Customs house officer Pat O'Connor. Talks about Lane's Emulsion, its founder Ted Lane and the process of making emulsion - mentions other Oamaru industries such as Ireland's mill, Clarke's mill, Meek's mill and the Regina factory. Mentions 'Tiger Thompson', Stella Kearns, Alden Kearns. Discusses the growing interst in the buildings of the historic precinct - mentions objections to the view that the foundry does not fit with the character of the buildings. Interviewer(s) - Jacqui Foley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-014577, OHC-014578 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.35 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5240. Colour laser printed photograph of Bernad Gillies and eight colour laser printed photgraphs of the Gillies Foundry in Tyne Street in abstract

Date: 1927

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-0938-1/2-G

Description: Interior view of the foundry at the Hillside Railway Workshops, Dunedin. A group of foundry workers are facing the camera, including a man wearing a suit and hat, identified as the foreman, Mr S H Wellington. This foundry is now superseded. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, circa 1926. Information about the foreman from W.P. Wellington (AT 13/12/4 11.12.96) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1934

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 13

Reference: PAColl-6407-64

Description: William Joseph Wallace in 1934. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 103 x 162 mm, dry mounted on to backing board

Date: 1927

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-0939-1/2-G

Description: Interior view of the foundry at the Hillside Railway Workshops, Dunedin. A group of foundry workers are facing the camera, including a man wearing a suit and hat, identified as the foreman, Mr Sam H Wellington. This foundry is now superseded. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, circa 1926. Information about the foreman from W.P. Wellington (AT 13/12/4 11.12.96) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches