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John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00140
Saw sharpening and setting machine
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00139
Veneer peeler
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00138
Double ending tenoning machine in fitting shop
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00137
Horizontal log bandsaw in fitting shop. c1950
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00136
Machine/fitting shop. See the big crane, the driver was John Cockroft whose father was the architect of the trestle bridge at Blake Dean.
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00135
Large planing machine for Mersey Docks and Harbour Board for making lock gates, in fitting shop looking towards old mill bottom. Eric Warrington and Herbert Ellison are both in the picture.
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00134
Vertical bandsaw, part of machine shop, and old mill bottom in the background.
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00133
Derek Pollard on left, Roy Baker on right, both fitters working on a two drum sanding machine. In background is the centre lathe turning department. Roy later became the dynamite worker on the building of the M62.
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00132
c1967, a gang chain morticer. Wilie Cole.
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00130
c1935. Vertical log saw, here it was in the fitting shop, after building extension it became the machine shop.
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00129
Double ended tenoning machine in fitting shop, looking toward the old mill bottom.
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00128
Horizontal log bandsaw.
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00127
View from fitting shop into a machine shop. The drawing office can be seen through the glass window, note the heating pipes in the roof truss.
Inside the Graham & Normanton factory - DEP00254
Lathe bed being machined on a planeing machine
Holt's Picker Works, Eastwood, c1930 - MOT00231
In the centre is Arnold Knight who lived nearby at Callis Bridge. Arnold was laid off in 1934 because of the trade depression caused by the Wall Street crash. Information supplied by his grandson Jonathan Greenwood.
Graham and Normanton, Halifax - DEP00294
Four speed lathe
Graham and Normanton, Halifax - DEP00292
Belt driven double headed shaping machine
Graham and Normanton, Halifax - DEP00291
Shaping machine, belt driven
Graham and Normanton, Halifax - DEP00290
Double headed shaping machine, motorised
Graham and Normanton, Halifax - DEP00289
Shaping machines ready for despatch to China
Graham and Normanton, Halifax - DEP00288
Double headed shaping machine, belt driven
Graham and Normanton, Halifax - DEP00287
Lathe with 4 speed cone pulley.
Graham and Normanton, Halifax - DEP00286
Centre Lathe.
Graham and Normanton, Halifax - DEP00285
Assembly shop with a consignment ready for despatch to China. Note the central heating pipes across the top of the picture.