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  • Collection: Derek Pollard collection

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Derek Pollard at the big planing machine in its special pit. 1998. See DEP00176 for picture of the pit during demolition.

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Hollow spindle lathe threading machine for making a cross-over sub connection. At Chevron Exploration Co, El Muglad, Sudan, 1982.

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Derek Pollard at Hyundai, Ulsan, South Korea. c1978.

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Heat transfer cylinder. Derek Pollard installed this Broadbent special purpose lathe at the Serck Heat Transfer Company Birmingham.

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Tool staff having a night out at a Medieval Banquet at Kershaw House c1973. Far left: Trevor Beard; far right: Patrick McKensie;Mrs McKensie; Carole Pollard; Derek Pollard. c1973.

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Notice of auction of machine tools.

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Looking down towards the canal from beside the Post Office.

Westfield Mill with BCA Leisure is on the left. Broadbent Machine Tools is on the right, this building was originally called Empress Foundry, now Empress Works.

BCA made wiring harnesses…

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Slideway grinder grinding a Broadbent Lathe bed. The operator is Ken Donahue.

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72" vertical boring drill, one of five that went to the Suez Canal Company, c1969.

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View of the Machine Shop. Councillor Stanley Leach is under the crane hook.

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A Break Lathe, the operator is Granville Whitaker, it was taken at the Hollins Lane, Sowerby Bridge premises of Broadbents pre 1960.

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Near the entrance to Centre Vale Park. Note the setts!

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The entrance to Centre Vale Park is on the left, and the chimney of Mons Mills is in the distance.

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This stone wall shows evidence of where the sluice gate was situated that fed water from the River Calder to the old goit that in turn fed water to the reservoir at Grange Mill, Mytholmroyd. It is because of this that the end house of Calder Terrace…

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Picture taken from YouTube, 'World in Action' part 3 of 3. On a cold day Derek and his siter Mabel woud stand and wait for the bus under the extractor, far left, to get the benefit of the warm air coming out of the mill. Unfortunately Mabel got the…
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