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Water tower

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 15:12:15 +0000

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Water tower at Walton Works, Brampton, Chesterfield. The Walton Works site was first developed as a 'candlewick and tape' factory. In 1896 it was purchased by Robinson and Co. for the manufacture of lint and later for antiseptic dressings, cardboard cartons and cotton wool. In the 20th century the works was enlarged with new buildings. It is listed Grade II*.

Buxton water

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 06:03:36 +0000

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Tanks outside the Buxton Water bottling plant. This Nestlé owned operation uses water piped from the same source as St Ann's Well in the town.

Clothing factory

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 06:01:21 +0000

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The Coop clothing factory was built in 1871 by R Todd of Southport, for Timothy Coop and James Marsden. There were large additions in 1888, by Isitt and Verity, and in 1892 by W Verity. It is listed Grade II.

Coop & Company Ltd. was founded in 1862 in Wigan. Timothy Coop, a retail tailor, sought to reduce the employment caused by the slump in the cotton trade, by training local women and girls to use sewing machines for the manufacture of men's clothing. Coop was one of a number of local men involved in a relief committee, supporting those left unemployed by the impact on the cotton industry in Lancashire by the American Civil War.

After visiting America, Coop and his business partner, James Marsden, built new premises on Dorning Street, Wigan, opened in 1872. This was followed in 1879 with the opening of the Mantle Department for women's clothing, and in 1880 and 1890, new wings were added to the original structure.

Coop produced service uniforms during both the First and Second World Wars, and was in business until 1990.

Boilerhouse

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 15:07:05 +0000

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Boilers sleeping in the remains of their building at the Cheadle bleachworks.

Robert Sinclair Buildings

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 07:02:21 +0000

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Premises built for the Robert Sinclair Tobacco Company on this corner site, to the right on Blenheim Street is Sinclair Building of 1913. On the left and facing onto Westgate Road is Blenheim House, built in 1919. The design was by architects Cackett & Burns Dick for use as a tobacco factory, warehouse and offices.

The firm was acquired by the Imperial Tobacco Company in 1930, of which company Sinclair was later chairman from 1947 to 1959 and president.

Door factory

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 06:20:49 +0000

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The Masonite factory at Drumsna, Co. Leitrim is a major employer in the Carrick-on-Shannon area of Ireland with a staff of around 300. Established in 1997, it produces door facings.

Butter Factory

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 09 May 2021 12:14:41 +0000

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The small town of Orroroo in South Australia, 200km north of Adelaide saw a boom in dairying following the damming of the Pekina Creek and the development of an irrigation scheme serving 40 farms on the eastern flats below the town. A butter factory was opened in 1907 and the product marketed as Walloway Butter. This was exported as far a London although 70% went to Broken Hill. In 1919 the business was acquired by the South Australian Farmers Union and this new factory was opened in 1921 at a cost of £8,000. This factory closed in 1970 and milk was subsequently sent by road to Gawler.

Grupo Cementos Portland Valderrivas

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 08:24:15 +0000

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Located in the town of Alcalá de Guadaíra, Seville, this cement plant was opened in 1964. Production capacity is 4000 tonnes per day. A grab shot from a bus.

Marathon Pac

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 06:06:58 +0000

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Seen at the Street Crane open day. These are examples of ESAB's unique octagonal cardboard bulk drum system for MIG/MAG welding wires. This allows continuous machine welding and the drum changeover allows continuous working as the wire ends can be butt welded.

Linotype

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 06:50:47 +0000

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The Linotype and Machinery Company opened a factory in Broadheath in 1897. At the height of its success, the firm employed more than 10,000 people to make typesetting machines for the national newspaper industry. Between 1897 and 1901 the Linotype Company built 185 houses for its employees and provided two football grounds, four tennis courts, two bowling greens, a cricket ground, a playground for children and allotments.

The business collapsed when electronic typesetting took over. However, despite the trade's death, the company behind it never actually died. Mergenthaler Linotype Company lives on as one as a dispenser of fonts, sporting "one of the world's largest font libraries, offering more than 10,500 high-quality typefaces," according to its Linotype website.

Boilers in retirement

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 06:04:59 +0000

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Derelict boilers amidst the remains of the Cheadle Bleachworks. The site was cleared for housing soon after I took this photo.

Firewatching

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 09:14:56 +0000

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Perched atop a gantry over the roof of the former Ordnance Factory No.10 (Roften) at Hooton was this very rare item to find in situ. It is a 'Consol' firewatching shelter which were installed in order to provide some protection from shrapnel for the firewatchers who were there to protect the factory from incendiary bombs. It is made of a goodly thickness of mild steel and contained a seat and small shelf with, almost certainly, a telephone. This site which manufactured heavy anti-aircraft guns during WWII has since been demolished.

Boilerhouse

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 07:07:47 +0000

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Probably the best surviving features at the Cheadle Bleachworks at the time of this photo were the two boilers. The Lancashire type to the right and the more modern oil or gas fired successor on the left. I strongly suspect that the white insulation that was lying all around was asbestos.

Mersey Dynamo Works

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 05:55:55 +0000

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A snap from a passing train.

The Mersey Dynamo works of McClure & Whitfield appears to have originated in a foundry business called Cameron Pearson which was merged into McClure & Whitfield in 1892 and became one of the first electrical engineering companies in the world, manufacturing dynamos. McClure & Whitfield installed the first electrical lighting powered by one of their dynamos on the Embankment in 1897, it also supplied the navy through 2 world wars with steering and drive motors for submarines, surface ships and indeed for mulberry harbour. In 1946 the business partnership existing between David McClure and Robert Brotherton Whitfield dissolved but the business continued. The company still exists and is still a private company owned by the family trading as Piggott and Whitfield Ltd, based in the North-West and in the City of London, installing mechanical, electrical, control and data systems into commercial and industrial properties all over the UK and beyond.

Marmion clothing factory

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 19:36:51 +0000

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This seven aisled building with north light roof was built by the Crewe Publishing and Printing company 1877 and was then bought by Coop & Co., Ltd after 1887 who began to manufacture clothes in the premises. In 1898 it was remodelled for the firm of W. H. L. Cameron of Manchester extensively and christened the "Marmion Works". Cameron sold the works to the Co-operative Wholesale Society in 1917 and production recommenced in 1918 and juvenile clothing became a speciality. Two extensions were added in 1931 and 1937-8.

Bottled water

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 08:23:58 +0000

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Tanks outside the Buxton Water bottling plant. This Nestlé owned operation uses water piped from St Ann's Well in the town.

Roften

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 08:21:05 +0000

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Part of the former Ordnance Factory No.10 (Roften) at Hooton. The factory manufactured heavy anti-aircraft guns during WWII, but I believe has now been demolished.

Magnetic Works

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 17:34:35 +0000

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H.S. Greenwood & Sons Ltd was established in 1948 and operated for many years from this building, Magnetic Works, Princess Street, Rochdale. They manufactured a wide range of permanent magnetic separators for the extraction of ferrous metal contamination. The company continues in business on another site as Greenwood Magnetics Limited.

Duckworth's

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 07:10:02 +0000

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The Essence Factory in Old Trafford was completed in 1896 for Duckworth and Co to the design of architects Briggs and Wostenholme of Blackburn. The frontage comprised offices with the manufacturing and warehousing to the rear. After the Duckworth Group was taken over by Cargill in 2003 the premises were soon redundant and became empty by 2007. The Grade II listed building has been publicised for a number of years as a probable base for the Church of Scientology but it currently stands vacant. The terracotta is of high quality and was probably manufactured by Dennis of Ruabon who certainly made the bricks used at the front.

"Consol" shelter

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 08:09:57 +0000

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Advert for fire watching shelter. There are still odd ones lying around as the steel they were made of was so thick.