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Demonstrating Egg Handling - THB00155
Doug Shaw on far right.
Demonstrating Pneumatic Egg Handling - THB00131
Marian Lord at New House hatchery, Mytholmroyd. This ingenious device, copied from an American device, made egg handling quicker and easier and with less risk of breakages.
Egg Setting Using the Pneumatic Handling Device - THB00149
Cyril Thornber on the left.
Eggs Being loaded for Delivery - THB00152
Peter Lloyd, Manager at Occold Hatchery, Suffolk on the left.
F & T Lumb's Hatchery, Hebden Bridge - LLG00135
In the foreground is Victoria Mill, now demolished. F & T Lumb's hatchery can be seen on the other side of the railway.
Heptonstall From Pecket Wood - MCH00148
The photo shows the hilltop village of Heptonstall. The woodland is known as Lee Wood. the fields make up land belonging to "Lumb's" Egg Production business. In the bottom left hand corner of the photo is "Lee Holme" crown green bowling club. and the…
Hoo Hole, Mytholmroyd - HBC00929
Judging by the writing on the van outside the mill, Ascot Cages, this was probably when Thornbers used this site for production of battery cages.
Model Hatchery - THB00136
The incubators are on the right, the chicks are hatched, checked, sexed and packed for delivery all inside one day.
Mytholmroyd - THB00177
Cragg road runs across the bottom of the picture, and Dean Hey is to the bottom right of the picture.
Nikki Harvey - JAE00525
c.2009
Not the usual computer technician! - THB00109
Paper tape readers in the computer room at Thornbers.
Overlooking Mytholmroyd, 1936 - HCC00319
The mill in the centre of the picture is Redman's Scarbottom Mill. The house on the extreme left is Rose Mount, Nest Lane. The wooden buildings were part of Thornber's hatchery. There are quite a few railway wagons in the sidings.
