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Plan showing mill and Old Town Hall.

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Plan showing mill line of pipe to Sandy Gate.

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View of high pressure cylinder, note the flywheel and connecting rod.

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Percy Pollard inspecting missing tooth on gear wheel on No 1 motion shaft. This other gear wheel is connected to the main drive electric motor.

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Edward Teasdale (rear) and 2 engineers from Cole, Marchant & Morley Ltd., Bradford, on canteen steps at Mitchell Bros.

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Boston Hill Estate, the house of the Mitchell family was next to Mitchell Bros Mill and is now Old town Cricket Club.

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Composite picture of the gates of Mitchell's Mill.

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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.

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Double ended tenoning machine in fitting shop, looking toward the old mill bottom.

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c1935. Vertical log saw, here it was in the fitting shop, after building extension it became the machine shop.

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Works trip by motor coach having breakfast stop on the "Great North Road", the A1, on their way to the woodworking machinery exhibition at Olympia, London, 1948.

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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.

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Vertical bandsaw, part of machine shop, and old mill bottom in the background.

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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.

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Machine/fitting shop. See the big crane, the driver was John Cockroft whose father was the architect of the trestle bridge at Blake Dean.

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Horizontal log bandsaw in fitting shop. c1950

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Double ending tenoning machine in fitting shop

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Saw sharpening and setting machine

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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

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Machine for head rounding and bevelling barrel lids, in the packing bay.
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