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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 - DEP00134
Vertical bandsaw, part of machine shop, and old mill bottom in the background.
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 - 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 - DEP00137
Horizontal log bandsaw in fitting shop. c1950
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00138
Double ending tenoning machine in fitting shop
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00139
Veneer peeler
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00140
Saw sharpening and setting machine
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00141
Large planing machine for long beam, mqade for the Mercy docks and Harbour Board. Herbert Ellison and Eric Warrington, on left , Albert Cockroft with his back to the camera. c 1961
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00142
Machine for head rounding and bevelling barrel lids, in the packing bay.
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00143
Multi spindle moulder, used for making skirting boards etc. Douglas Parker holding the sheet.
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00144
Machine in fitting bay, the despatch bay is in the background
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00145
View over Mytholm showing Mytholm Hall, and the King Street cottages that were prone to flooding. Right hand end of two storey house opposite was a Co-op. Bungalow in centre bottom was originally a Dawson City hut that was stone clad.
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John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00147
Poster advertising sale of John Pickles machinery
John Pickles & Sons, Mytholm - DEP00429
Derek Pollard and Roy Baker, May 1957
John Pickles & Sons, Mytholm - DEP00430
Leaving work, c1960
John Pickles & Sons, Mytholm - DEP00431
Trip to Olympia, 1948
Joseph and Annie May Hirst - DEP00318
Taken at Old Town.
Joseph Hirst and Delia Pollard - DEP00319
Taken at Delia and Percy's house at Old Town.
Lacy House, Callis - DEP00321
Unusually placed date stone. The initials are for Isaac Rawdon.
Laneside, Mytholmroyd - DEP00387
Looking on to New Road with the railway viaduct in the distance. On the right of the picture is Royal Fold and Scout Road goes off to the right. One of the 2 boys is Leslie Greenwood who worked for the Co-op most of his life.
Mark Above Doorway - DEP00437
This strange mark is above a doorway at Charlestown.
Mary Ann Hollingrake, left, with Colleagues - DEP00440
Left is Mary Ann Holinrake, Grandmother of Derek Pollard. She lived in Heptonstall and worked in a sewing shop in Hebden Bridge. Mary holds a pair of scissors in her hand, the girl in the centre has a tape measure round her neck and the one on the…