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Ronnie Robinson working his Horizontal Boring machine. June 1998.

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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…

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Broadbent's hollow spindle lathe threading a drill at Weir Engineering, Doha, Qatar. Graham King is the machinist. 1979.

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Hollow spindle lathe with a "grey" well head fixed to the chuck by T bolts. South Sudan, 1981.

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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…

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Derek Pollard at the big planing machine in its special pit. 1998. See DEP00176 for picture of the pit during demolition.

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Hollow spindle lathe threading machine for making a cross-over sub connection. At Chevron Exploration Co, El Muglad, Sudan, 1982.

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Derek Pollard at Hyundai, Ulsan, South Korea. c1978.

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Heat transfer cylinder. Derek Pollard installed this Broadbent special purpose lathe at the Serck Heat Transfer Company Birmingham.

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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.

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Notice of auction of machine tools.

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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…

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There was a saw mill here in the mid 19th Century. The building on the right was once the engine house for Brockwell Mill, and THE white house was the mill owner's house. If you continue down the cobbled road on the right you would come to the base…

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LOCATION: Crimble Clough, Slaithwaite
REF: CV27
GRID REF: 083 145
CLASSIFICATION: D
CONDITION: Semi used
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Mid – late 19C
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: Built in 1864, this is a five storey, stone built mill, double gabled…
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