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Reply #30 - Jun 11^th, 2015 at 5:52pm

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Yes great job Ozy! We are all jealous.. Roll Eyes

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Reply #31 - Dec 29^th, 2024 at 7:04pm

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Gran Hickling's granddaughter here. I stumbled across this thread while looking up his camp ovens today. Thank you so much for posting photos, resources and the mp3 of his interview. I have old newspaper clippings of some of his projects, as well as family photos taken when I used to visit the foundry to say goodnight when there was a late night cast. It's interesting to see things through someone else's viewpoint. It also means a lot to be hear his voice again.

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Reply #32 - Dec 29^th, 2024 at 7:10pm

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HannahMHickling wrote on Dec 29^th, 2024 at 7:04pm:

Gran Hickling's granddaughter here. I stumbled across this thread while looking up his camp ovens today. Thank you so much for posting the mp3 of his interview. It means so much to be able to hear his voice again.

Hi Hannah and welcome to the forum. Great to have you.

These old E G Foundry ovens are still very popular with collectors.

Do you by any chance have any more photos that we could put on here of the foundry, the camp ovens or your grandfather.

Here on this forum I believe we have managed to collect the largest overall history of old camp ovens and just love adding to it.

Welcome once again.

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Reply #33 - Dec 29^th, 2024 at 9:23pm

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Thanks Derek. I'll go through what I have over the next few days and put some photos up.

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Reply #34 - Dec 30^th, 2024 at 9:44am

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Many, many thanks.

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Reply #35 - Dec 30^th, 2024 at 3:29pm

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Welcome Hannah.
Great to see you here in our Campoven history section, anything at all that you can add will be very much appreciated.
Way to much of Australia's campoven history has already been lost.
I'm kind of amazed that you have just bobbed up here Grin

Do you personaly own any examples of your Grandfathers ovens.
I own one , a 12 inch.

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Reply #36 - Jan 4^th, 2025 at 2:08pm

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Hi Saltbush Bill,

Sadly no, I don't have any of Granpop's ovens. My cousin mentioned he saw on on Marketplace and it's actually looking for them on Facebook and Googling that led me here! I did see eddy mention the possibility of casting some - did anyone ever get one made?

I have some brass bells that he cast, a lamp, and moulds for some pieces. He and Dad also cast the scrollwork around the house.

I drove past the Foundry this morning after breakfast. It'll always be "the Foundry" for me, even though it hasn't had any signage for so many years.

I'm still looking for photos more related to the Foundry - most of them are home/family things. Dad has given me the audio tapes from the oral history interview in 1995 and 2 VHS tapes of the Paddy Hannan casting. I'm going to have them digitised and will share here. Granpop passed almost 16 years ago, so it will be nice to see him in the video. I wouldn't be surprised to see my Dad in there as well.

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