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Computer Controlled Lathe. - DEP00195
Derek Pollard with the lathe in the fitting shop of Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd in 1998.
Demolition of Broadbent's, Mytholmroyd - DEP00176
The floor showing the pit for the big planing machine. The red brick building in the centre was Waites' bakery. Waite's ceased trading after the disastrous floods of boxing Day 2015, when not only their shops were flooded but the bakery as well.
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 - DEP00162
Crane drum lathe. c1980.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00161
Heavy duty centre lathe. c1985.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00160
72" V.T.M. vertical boring mill.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00157
Railway wheel lathe. c1983.
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 - 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 - 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 - DEP00153
Hollow spindle lathe with a "grey" well head fixed to the chuck by T bolts. South Sudan, 1981.
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 - 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 - DEP00150
Alan Beardsley in the fitting shop. June 1998.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00149
Ronnie Robinson working his Horizontal Boring machine. June 1998.
Workers of John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00146
Three John Pickles employees, Tony Summerscales, apprentice foundary pattern maker (on left) Gainger Lee, apprentice centre lathe turner (centre) and Derek Pollard, apprentice fitter, on the right. c1959
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00144
Machine in fitting bay, the despatch bay is in the background
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00143
Multi spindle moulder, used for making skirting boards etc. Douglas Parker holding the sheet.
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00142
Machine for head rounding and bevelling barrel lids, in the packing bay.
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 - DEP00140
Saw sharpening and setting machine