Introduction

Fettling.com is the dedicated website for West Yorkshire Foundries. The foundry on Clarence Road Leeds started production in the 1930's; its closure was announced in September 2003. From April until November 2004 Heads Together Productions facilitated the project 'Meltdown'. Foundry staff were encouraged to record and express their thoughts and memories of working in a large foundry facing closure. This work has been reproduced in a variety of forms:

A book 'Meltdown – Words and Images from a West Yorkshire Foundry'

An exhibition – which is touring the Leeds area.

A DVD of the short documentary film about the foundry - Cast Well and True.

This website which contains additional work, updates and analysis and
we are currently working on an education pack for schools. We would like people to contribute to this site, so ex-employees, visitors, contractors, local historians, interested parties please send us any written or visual material. If you would like to see what others have done please click here.

Meltdown is a partnership project between Heads Together, Amicus and Hydro Aluminium Motorcast – supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.