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Title: Oldfield Watson's Yard, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00135
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Title
Oldfield Watson's Yard, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00135
Description
This is an old Ruston Bucyrus Dragline crane that my father Douglas Watson bought from Hydrocon of Littleborough to build the Buttress Brink retaining wall in 1968.
After commissioning it here in our old yard, we tracked it up Hope Street and through St George’s Square and over St George’s Bridge to get it to the Buttress for work at 7am one morning to avoid traffic, and returned in the opposite direction some 12 months after. It never worked again and was scrapped in the late 70s or 80s.
Information from Paul Watson.
The yard on New Road backed onto the Rochdale Canal. Above are terraced houses on the Birchcliffe Hillside as well as Zion Particular Baptist Chapel.
After commissioning it here in our old yard, we tracked it up Hope Street and through St George’s Square and over St George’s Bridge to get it to the Buttress for work at 7am one morning to avoid traffic, and returned in the opposite direction some 12 months after. It never worked again and was scrapped in the late 70s or 80s.
Information from Paul Watson.
The yard on New Road backed onto the Rochdale Canal. Above are terraced houses on the Birchcliffe Hillside as well as Zion Particular Baptist Chapel.
Creator
W. Shepherd
Source
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
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PHDA - W. Shepherd Collection
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Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
WSC00135.tif
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Citation
W. Shepherd, “Oldfield Watson's Yard, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00135,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 19, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/20719.
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