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  • Collection: Derek Pollard collection

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Showing the outline of the goit to the waterwheel at Grange Mill.

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All that remains of the former mill on the Rochdale Canal.

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This cobbled road leads to Redacre sewage works and to Broadbottom Farm.

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Annie May was born 20th April, 1915

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1960s postcard taken after the demolition of the High Street and Bridge Lanes houses

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A section of the new Carr Lane footbridge over the railway seen here on Caldene Avenue prior to its installation in March 2010.

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Drill string pipe machining drill connection for drilling rigs. Situated in Southern Sudan.

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Machining part of valve assembly in Southern Sudan

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Edward G Herbert owned Broadbent's. Stanley Machine Tools on display.

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New Fitting Bay, Mytholmroyd. Centre front are two stair trenchers to John Pickles' design.

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Ronnie Robinson working his Horizontal Boring machine. June 1998.

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Derek Pollard, fitter, in the machine shop, June 1998. Note the big planer at the far end. The planer was fitted into an 8 feet (2.5 m) deep pit so that it would clear the overhead crane. Due to the water table level in this area, a water pump had…

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Broadbent's hollow spindle lathe threading a drill at Weir Engineering, Doha, Qatar. Graham King is the machinist. 1979.

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Hollow spindle lathe with a "grey" well head fixed to the chuck by T bolts. South Sudan, 1981.

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Leo Nicol, crane driver, in fitting shop. Leo was not tall enough for the army so he was a Bevan Boy and worked in a coal mine driving an electric narrow gauge railway engine. He then worked t Hebden Bridge gas works, then driving a crane in the…
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