Casting for Fort at Walney - 1914

  • Description

    Traction engine and trailer carrying a large casting is about to cross Jubilee (Walney) Bridge on their way to Walney Fort. Five men in picture; driver on the engine, booted man, possibly the foreman, with hand on engine, two workmen one sitting on back of engine, fifth man wearing suit and overcoat and holding gloves, possibly a supervisor. 'Barrow Carting & Trading Co. Ltd. No2. Tel 83' is written on trailer....Image from the Sankey Family Photograph Collection (c/o Cumbria Archives), available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence. Ref. 877, BDB 86/1/302. Sankey Family Photographic Archive © Cumbria Archives
  • Owner

    Sankey Family Photography Collection (Cumbria Archives)
  • Source

    Local (Co-Curate)
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  • Further information

    Link: https://www.sankeyphotoarchive.uk/collection/view/?id=2163
    Resource type: Text/Website
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 6 days, 16 hours ago
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    Picture Taken: Unknown
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