Speaking of revisits – this iron works – Österbybruk Iron Works – in Northern Uppland is one of the places I’ve frequented regularly the last year. Just walking around there gives a strong sense of seeing history come live. Above is a part of the building that housed the old Walloon smithy and forgery. The smithy has – just like Österbybruk – older origins, but was rebuilt 1794 – as stated above. It is still complete and is now a museum. “O O” was the sign that was stamped on the bar iron that was forged here and most of this high quality iron was shipped to Sheffield in England to be refined into tools and machines by the emerging, more advanced, British industry.
The buildings that housed the saddle and leather manufacturing. In red and yellow (basically iron manufacturing by products) as most of the stone buildings at Österbybruk.
The rather “new” building from 1860 is called the “steam hammer” and housed the modern smithy and forgery when the iron industry went through the big modernisation during the 19th century here.
One of the many shutters in the depot building. The shutter is painted with iron oxide red. The stone house (and the other stone houses here as well) is painted with yellow iron vitriol (iron sulphate) based paint. Traces of iron everywhere. You can find more information on the history of the Swedish iron and iron works here and here.
I’ve been pondering over systematically going through my reviews and do follow-ups of them. I try to write the reviews after some time of use – it is so easy to be overwhelmed by a new pen/ink, but later on I often find that I would like to add some additional opinions and/or review some of the things I wrote in the original review. I will start this revisiting quite soon, but it would be very helpful to and interesting to hear what you, who are reading my blog (thank you for visiting!), think about it. I’ve put together a little poll for this which you are very welcome to cast your vote in – just look in the upper right corner of the right sidebar. You are also most welcome to share your views in a comment to this post (or wherever you find it appropriate). Constructive feedback is always appreciated and welcome! Thank you for visiting the lady dandelion blog!
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