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Collapse D1413 - Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Company, Chesterfield - [20th cent]

D1413 - Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Company, Chesterfield - [20th cent]

1 - Trade catalogue, containing excellent series of photographs including a general view of the works, the blast furnaces, foundries, rolling mills, pipes for Derwent Valley water scheme, castings and colliery haulage engines (Printed) - 1921

2 - View of the rolling mills - c1900

3 - Photographs of drawings of the old type blast furnace used at Sheepbridge in the second half of the nineteenth century and the "No. 5" blast furnace of about 1900, with a photograph of a winter scene on the reverse of the page - c1920

4 - Photograph of a train of pipes produced by Sheepbridge for Manchester Corporation and photograph of a wagon produced by Sheepbridge Works - c1920

5 - Further photograph of a train of pipes produced by Sheepbridge for Manchester Corporation and detail of part of an engine presumably cast at Sheepbridge - c1920

6 - Photograph of headgear pulley produced at Sheepbridge Works for Dinnington Colliery and photograph of underground haulage engine for Glapwell Colliery produced at Sheepbridge

7 - Another view of the haulage engine for Glapwell Colliery - c1920

8 - Newspaper cutting relating to the Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Co's directors report and balance sheet for the year ending 30 June 1881 (Printed) - 1881

9 - "Foundry pig iron specifications and grading from a maker's point of view" by Herbert Pilkington - [20th cent]

10 - Newspaper cutting from the 'Derbyshire Times' relating to Fred Johnson and his work at Sheepbridge (first started work there in 1899) (Printed) - 1974

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