The Spare Parts concertina band is looking for traditional or at least old songs on the subject of iron foundries, preferably in Sussex. There are plenty about steel mills and blacksmiths, but iron founding, casting and the assembly of iron structures such as piers and bandstands seem not to have been celebrated in song.

We need the songs to go with magic lantern slides and engravings from 1832 onwards, when John Every's Phoenix Ironworks opened in Lewes.

Has anyone got any bright ideas about where to look?

Many thanks,

Valmai