It doesn't look much - it doesn't even have a roof - but a group of Port Chalmers residents in Dunedin are battling to save an historic foundry, and convert it into a multipurpose community, arts and heritage centre.
The long abandoned Sims Building is the last remaining trace of the port's shipbuilding history.
The City Council has now agreed to pay to decontaminate the site and shore up the cliff behind the building. They've signed a memorandum of understanding with the Port Chalmers Foundry Trust.
As work continues on a feasibility study, some leading local musicians and poets will take part in a fundraising Foundry Festival, featuring local hero band The Bats.
Kris Smith from the Foundry Festival Trust shares a short history of the Sims building with Lynn Freeman.
The Foundry Festival is on this Saturday - October 15 - in Port Chalmers.
