Display - photograph by Susan Humphries CHESLYN HAY & GREAT WYRLEY FLOWER CLUB

NAFAS EDUCATION EXHIBIT
Display - photograph by Susan Humphries

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For the 2006 National Show in Telford, NAFAS invited Susan Humphries and Marilyn Farmer to arrange the Education Exhibit. Inspired by visits to Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron and Blists Hill Open Air Museum, they chose to depict the process of iron smelting.

The top of the exhibit represents the flames, fuelled by the coke used to heat the ore to extract the iron. A runnel along which the molten metal runs is depicted using a horizontal frame through the main vertical frame. The "molten metal" then pours off the runnel and into the mould on the floor.

NAFAS Education Exhbit by Susan Humphries & Marilyn Farmer Detail shot of the flames Closer detail shot of the flames Detail shot of the mould

Full photograph © Penny Lewis, detail photographs © Susan Humphries