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Turkey Plucking - RCF00149
Willy Wilkinson who worked for Thornbers.
Thornbers Duck Sheds, Mytholmroyd - RCF00144
This pathway was known as 'Duck Muck Lane.'
Thornbers - PNH00745
A consignment of Thornbers hatching eggs for export being delivered to BOAC (merged with BEA 1974)
Unitarian Church and Langfield Moor, Todmorden. - RDA00161
The Grade l building built by 'Honest John' Fielden MP in the late 1860s.
Unusual View of Heptonstall - ALC00782
Photographed from the Valley View area of Heptonstall. The strange, tall, lean-to building with 12 battlements on one side can be seen when walking up to Heptonstall. Heptonstall Road runs across the centre of the picture between the building on the…
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.
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.
Day Old Chicks Being Despatched By Air - THB00158
This shows David Love, Hatchery manager at Twyford, Berks from 1968 onwards. He is despatching day old breeding stock to Japan from Heathrow.
Brooder Houses at Elphaborough - THB00157
Scarbottom Mill is beyond the poultry houses. The footpath in the foreground was affectionately known as Duck Muck Lane.
Demonstrating Egg Handling - THB00155
Doug Shaw on far right.
Vaccinating - THB00153
Cyril Thornber on the right.
Eggs Being loaded for Delivery - THB00152
Peter Lloyd, Manager at Occold Hatchery, Suffolk on the left.
Egg Setting Using the Pneumatic Handling Device - THB00149
Cyril Thornber on the left.
Construction of Brooder Houses at Elphaborough - THB00147
The original brooder houses were made of timber but after the war they were gradually replaced by brick and concrete houses which each had a capacity og 12,000 birds.
