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Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town - DEP00122
c1960. Machine for making wool "Tops".
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00127
View from fitting shop into a machine shop. The drawing office can be seen through the glass window, note the heating pipes in the roof truss.
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00128
Horizontal log bandsaw.
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00129
Double ended tenoning machine in fitting shop, looking toward the old mill bottom.
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00130
c1935. Vertical log saw, here it was in the fitting shop, after building extension it became the machine shop.
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00132
c1967, a gang chain morticer. Wilie Cole.
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 - 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
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00149
Ronnie Robinson working his Horizontal Boring machine. June 1998.
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.