The Ram of Iron

My movie is a work of fiction inspired by my early work with The Deanshanger Oxide Works in the 1970's during my career with Tilcon Mortars and also from my work with ground granulated blast furnace slag in the 1980's with Amey Roadstone Corporation and the Frodingham Cement Company.

When working as a Quality Controller for Tilcon, one of the mortar plants on my technical patch was just 3 miles from Ironbridge, Shropshire. I have some wonderful memories from 1979 (the bicentenary of the bridge), when the plant manager took me to see the bridge and introduced me to some wonderful people involved with the celebrations at that time. I still have an iron ashtray and a commemorative struck coin from that very day!

My laboratory was based at Oldbury and during the same year I worked at the Birmingham Science Museum a week prior to it's opening, I was colouring the joints of the tiled floor beneath the wonderful "Smethwick Engine", which was also 200 years old that year! I was using earth-based ferric oxide black with a solution of waterglass. I had many a night on the tiles with Tilcon!