Industry Gallery

Debdon Sawmill and Power House 34015_038

Debdon Sawmill and Power House, Debdon Lake, Northumberland, 2018. The place where the first hydro-electric power source in the world was generated, lighting the lamps at Cragside the home of industrialist and inventor Lord Armstrong. NU0602

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Aerial, Hydro Electric, Power House, Saw Mill

Jacksons Warehouse, Manchester IC295_001

Cut-away reconstruction illustration, by Allan T Adams, of Jackson's Warehouse, Piccadilly Basin, Manchester, being used by the Rochdale Canal Company, showing how goods were hoisted from boats onto the required floor of the warehouse using machinery located on the top floor of the building. Rochdale Canal Warehouse

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Farrier, Woodbastwick, Norfolk AA98_13563

Woodbastwick, Norfolk. Interior of blacksmiths shop. A farrier shoeing a horse. A working horse would need re-shoeing about every five weeks. Here a hot shoe is measured against the horse's hoof, and the farrier can tell by the mark left how much to alter the shoe. However, the post-war campaign to mechanise agriculture meant that within a decade of this picture being taken there were few working farriers left. Photographed by Hallam Ashley, February 1949

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