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Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00150
Alan Beardsley in the fitting shop. June 1998.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00151
Derek Pollard, fitter, in the machine shop, June 1998. Note the big planer at the far end. The planer was fitted into an 8 feet (2.5 m) deep pit so that it would clear the overhead crane. Due to the water table level in this area, a water pump had…
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00152
Broadbent's hollow spindle lathe threading a drill at Weir Engineering, Doha, Qatar. Graham King is the machinist. 1979.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00153
Hollow spindle lathe with a "grey" well head fixed to the chuck by T bolts. South Sudan, 1981.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00154
Leo Nicol, crane driver, in fitting shop. Leo was not tall enough for the army so he was a Bevan Boy and worked in a coal mine driving an electric narrow gauge railway engine. He then worked t Hebden Bridge gas works, then driving a crane in the…
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00155
Derek Pollard at the big planing machine in its special pit. 1998. See DEP00176 for picture of the pit during demolition.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00156
Hollow spindle lathe threading machine for making a cross-over sub connection. At Chevron Exploration Co, El Muglad, Sudan, 1982.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00157
Railway wheel lathe. c1983.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00158
Derek Pollard at Hyundai, Ulsan, South Korea. c1978.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00159
Heavy duty centre lathe.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00160
72" V.T.M. vertical boring mill.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00161
Heavy duty centre lathe. c1985.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00162
Crane drum lathe. c1980.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00164
Heat transfer cylinder. Derek Pollard installed this Broadbent special purpose lathe at the Serck Heat Transfer Company Birmingham.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00165
Tool staff having a night out at a Medieval Banquet at Kershaw House c1973. Far left: Trevor Beard; far right: Patrick McKensie;Mrs McKensie; Carole Pollard; Derek Pollard. c1973.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00166
Oil country lathe.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00167
Newspaper article.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00168
Notice of auction of machine tools.
Stage performance at Wainsgate Chapel, c1950. - DEP00170
Wainsgate Chapel is at Old Town, near Hebden Bridge.
Back row, L to R: Pauline Lumb; Sylvia Butler; Judith Crossley, (her mother was possibly the Choir mistress at Wainsgate); Mabel Pollard; Cathleen Lumb; Bernard Mortimer (nephew of Harry…
Back row, L to R: Pauline Lumb; Sylvia Butler; Judith Crossley, (her mother was possibly the Choir mistress at Wainsgate); Mabel Pollard; Cathleen Lumb; Bernard Mortimer (nephew of Harry…
Abraham Gibson's Sale - DEP00171
Effects were auctioned off in a marquee at Greenwood Lee. Derek's mum bought a copper jam pan.
Old Town School, c 1949 - DEP00172
Mr Hope was the Head Master. Derek was naturally left handed but was made to write with his right hand, so school days were not particularly happy. He can be seen here on the back row 2nd from left. Middle row from left: Mabel Pollard, Sheila…
Holme Street School, Hebden Bridge, 1952 - DEP00173
This photograph, attributed to the Hebden Bridge Times, appeared in "The Hebden", Calder High School's magazine for March 1952. The play was A A Milne's "Make Believe" and was the first full length play to be staged in the theatre at Calder High…
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00174
Looking down towards the canal from beside the Post Office.
Westfield Mill with BCA Leisure is on the left. Broadbent Machine Tools is on the right, this building was originally called Empress Foundry, now Empress Works.
BCA made wiring harnesses…
Westfield Mill with BCA Leisure is on the left. Broadbent Machine Tools is on the right, this building was originally called Empress Foundry, now Empress Works.
BCA made wiring harnesses…