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Z41/LB10/1/3/2
Title
Album no. 2
Date free text
1932 - 1950s
Production date
From: 1930 To: 1960
Scope and Content
Album no.2. Dated July 1950. Page 1: Two black and white photographs. One of Bletchley stack chimney finished on Tuesday 22nd November except for interior bricking. 242ft high from foundations. 210 feet from top of square. Started early September. Second photo is at Contractors Chimneys Limited. 200,000 bricks used – 54,000 radiated, 156,000 ordinary. Page2: Black and white photograph looking up the side of a chimney stack at a steep angle. ‘Commons’ inscribed on the back of the photograph. Page 3: Two black and white photographs of chimney at Hayes, Middlesex. Architect R.Sharpe F.R.I.B.A. Contractors Commercial Structures Limited. Photographer B.I.S. Page 4: Large black and white photograph of a chimney. Photographer Edward J Reynolds, 13 Gosberton Road, SW12. Page 5: Black and white photograph of chimney at a factory on Sidcup bypass. Contractor R B Hilton Limited. Lined with London Brick Company Bricks. Faced with sand lime bricks. Black and white photograph of a chimney, photographer W.Ingle. Page 6: Black and white photograph showing view over Battersea Power Station. Photographer Herbert Felton. Copyright Architect & Building News. Black and white photograph of a chimney at Mitcham, Surrey. Erected by Chimneys Limited in 1932. Photographer W.Ingle. 55 Grosvenor Road SW1. Page 7: Black and white photograph of unnamed factory. Black and white photograph of construction of The New London Electric Works Limited, Upton Park. Chimney 150ft x 5ft 6inch diameter, with boiler house and economiser lettings. Photographer W.Ingle. 55 Grosvenor Road SW1. Page 8: Two black and white photographs of chimneys at Limehouse Generating Station, Stepney. Contractors P C Richardson & Company. Photographer Sullivan. October 1937 Page 9: Black and white photograph of chimney at Humberstone Garage, Abbotsford Road, Leicester. Contractor A Baxter, Leicester. Photographer B.I.S. Bricks: pressed. Copyright London Brick Company. Page 10: Large black and white photograph of a chimney shaft at St Helier Hospital for the London County Council. Main contractors Allen Fairhead & Sons Limited. Sub-contractors Topping & Leggat. London Brick Company Bricks not used outside. Faced with white clay brick. Photographer Briggs Photo Studio. Page 11: Sepia toned photograph of chimneys at Bracebridge mental Hospital, Lincoln. Architect Harold S Hall L.R.I.B.A.. Contractor Chimney Construction Company. Photographer Harrison, 168 High Street, Lincoln. 25 Mar 1938. Page 12: Photograph of chimney at Limehouse Generating Station, Stepney. Builders P C Richardson & Company. Page 13: Two black and white photographs showing the interior of a chimney, the second with a man climbing up footrests built into the wall. Photographer (copyright) Photopress, Johnson’s Court, Fleet Street EC4. Page 14: blank Page 15: Black and white photograph of loading at South West India Docks for Trinidad Sugar Estates Limited. Photographer Briggs Photo Studio. Page 16 & 17: blank Page 18: Black and white photograph of workers stacking bricks. Photographer David Charles84, Fetter Land EC4. Black and white photograph of men loading the SS Governor at South West India Docks for Trinidad Sugar Estates Limited. Photographer Briggs Photo Studio. Page 19: Black and white photograph of dockside where ships are being loaded. Photographer Dell & Wainwright. Black and white photograph of 5,000 bricks being loaded on the ‘City of Salisbury’ at Millwall Docks for the Persian Gulf. Photographer Sydney W Newbery, 7 Stockwell Terrace SW9. March 1936. Page 20: Black and white photograph of men packing crates of 6,500 bricks bound for Gibraltar. Black and white photograph of man loading bricks onto SS Governor at South West India Docks for Trinidad Sugar Estates Limited. Photographer Briggs photo Studio. Page 21: Black and white photograph of crane lifting crates of 200 bricks for the Royal Engineer’s Order of 6,500 bricks for Gibraltar. Black and white photograph with pieces of other black and white photographs overlaid captioned ‘packing for Gibraltar’. Photographer David Charles, 84, Fetter Lane EC4 Pages 22 – 23 blank. Page 24: Black and white photograph of man stacking bricks in preparation for transporting bricks to southstack lighthouse. Photographer Stewart Bale, Liverpool. Page 25: Black and white photograph of train loaded with bricks. Photographer Topical Press Agency, 10 – 11 Red Lion Court, Fleet Street EC4. Copyright LNER Press Section, Kings Cross Station N1. Pages 26 – 27 blank. Page 28: Two black and white photographs of Ferme Park depot with trains loaded with bricks. Photographer Fox Photos. Copyright LNER Press Section, Kings Cross Station N1. Page 29: Black and white photograph of Ferme Park depot with trains loaded with bricks. Photographer Fox Photos. Copyright LNER Press Section, Kings Cross Station N1. Page 30: Black and white photograph of Hornsey depot with trains loaded with bricks. Photographer Fox Photos. Copyright LNER Press Section, Kings Cross Station N1.Oct 1934. Note on back ‘bricks from Peterborough’. Page 31: Black and white photograph of Hornsey depot with trains loaded with bricks. Photographer Fox Photos. Copyright LNER Press Section, Kings Cross Station N1. Page 32: Black and white photograph of Hornsey depot with steam locomotive pulling train loaded with bricks. Photographer Fox Photos. Copyright LNER Press Section, Kings Cross Station N1.
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