Angela writes-
In light of the upcoming demolition, I was allowed exclusive access inside the Cape Ann Tool Company recently to take some photos prior to it being demolished. Thought I would share. I put them together in a video montage.
Exclusive Cape Ann Tool Company Video From Angela Cook
Good Morning Gloucester 
This is fabulous. Thank you so much for taking the photos and making this presentation. I would love to have been able to have had that opportunity but could never have done it so well. It is a treasure for Rockport to keep.
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Well done! Really enjoyed watching…thanks
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Wonderful! Some amazing imagery there, and nice musical accompaniment. Thanks for letting us see an old abandoned structure that I’ve always thought was very cool as it is.
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Nice job.
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You can almost ear the echos of machinery and men’s voices …
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I can hear it now, as a memory, Drop Forge noise……click click click click BOOM! , click click click click BOOM! , click click click click BOOM!……
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Very cool video – thank you for taking time to put that together. Speaking of echoes of machinery and men’s voices… I wanted to share something that happened when our family stayed at Emerson Inn by the Sea’s Classic Cottage (vacation home next to the hotel) during the Christmas holidays in 2011. My husband and I were upstairs asleep when I woke up to the sound of whistling that seemed to be coming from the closet (like a man beckoning a dog-type-whistle) and sounds of hammering against iron/steel and the like mixed with inaudible voices as if people were feverishly working. I just laid in bed awake, eyes wide open and obviously very “freaked out.” I got up in the pitch black to check on our kids to make sure they were okay, and when I returned to my room, the noises had stopped and I did finally go back to sleep. The next morning over breakfast, I mentioned to hubby that it was not a good night’s sleep for me at all. Without missing a beat and almost talking over each other, we both said at the same time “Did you hear that whistling and hammering noise last night?” Unbeknownst to each other at the time, we had both been woken up and heard the same thing – even so much as replicating at the same time the type of whistle we both heard. Since I am not originally from the area but my husband is, I was unaware that the old Cape Ann Tool company was nearby. Was this residual energy coming from the plant that was abandoned after being liquidated almost 25 years ago? I don’t know what the answer is, but there are some things that can’t be explained or “debunked”, and knowing there aren’t any other factories in the vicinity that could have produced that kind of noise (much less at 3am in the morning) Very strange indeed!
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I hear the voices every day. I operate one of the small forging hammers from CAF in my daily activities here at my home forging studio. I passed the CAF each day on my way to Gloucester High in the 60’s. I didn’t even know what they did in there. Never in my wildest imaginings did I think I would become a iron forger yet here I am with 43 years under my belt!. Funny how life turns out.
Thanks for the photos.
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