Old farm on Sand road in the early morning fog
Old Farm on Sand road in Canaan Ct
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From Photographs to Paintings
Just a bit of shameless self-promotion. Two of my good friends, Judi Bailey and David Rowley and myself just produced our first Amazon Kindle Ebook about creating paintings form photographs. It is available here :http://www.amazon.com/dp/B013J7GFLS
Collinsville, Farmington River
Yesterday’s trip was to Collinsville, Connecticut a nice, old town alongside the Farmington River. It was built around the Collins Company Axe Factory in the 19th century and quite a lots of the old buildings are still standing in relatively good condition. Found some really nice gears that they used for the dams
Farrel Foundry
This might be my last visit to the Farrel Foundry site that is being completely cleaned out by a salvage crew . They have only a couple of days left to complete their operation. Who know what comes next. The wrecking ball ? Quite possible. The building is such a terrible shape, with the roofs partially collapsed in places, water all over on every floor, that fixing it seems to be out of question. So here are a few of the last images I took, some are of the electrical equipment that is being taken out and some of the crashing down old building.
Battle Hill Forge
Farrell Corp
A few recent pictures from my visit to Farrell Corp‘s old factory
Ideal Forging Corporation, Southington, the demolition has started
Revisited the forge with my friend Ted Roth on March 25 after the long winter break. The demolition has started, workman in their bright yellow jackets and hardhats are walking around and a huge machine is taking apart one of the buildings one piece at a time. Met a few people who used to work in the Forge ( it was one of the biggest employer of the Town) and they all had bitter sweet feelings about the slow disappearance of the place. While they have many fond memories, they all think that the demolition is well needed, the place is just an eye sore for them, good for scrap metal and nostalgic photography, but not much else. I wonder what will replace the buildings ?
Ideal Forging Corporation
A great example to the ruinous death to American heavy industry. This place has been abandoned just 11 years ago and it is slated for demolition. The giant machines stand like sentinels inside the enormous workshops, waiting in vain for the return of the people once worked there. More pictures:
Farrel Corp
Here are a few pictures from the Farrel Corp site in Ansonia, Connecticut. It used to be one of the biggest manufacturing company in the state, but by now the global competition made a real dent in its size. Still the factory, now owned by HF Machinery Group is still churning out orders for machines for the plastic industry and its future seems bright. The pictures are from both the old parts, (that is not in use anymore ) and the working section of the factory.
Stanley Works, New Britain
We had the good fortune to get permission to photograph inside of the closed down section of Stanley Works Factory. Founded by Federick T. Stanley in 1843, originally a bolt and door hardware manufacturing company located in New Britain, Connecticut, was one of the biggest employer in the state . The complex is huge, we hope to get back many more times .
