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Collapse D7340 - Richard Johnson and Nephew of Ambergate, wire works (also known as Alderwasley Iron Mills) - [late 19th-early 20th cent]

D7340 - Richard Johnson and Nephew of Ambergate, wire works (also known as Alderwasley Iron Mills) - [late 19th-early 20th cent]

1 - Ridgeway, with Ambergate wire works, farm buildings and other buildings in view - early 20th cent

2 - Wire works exterior - early 20th cent

3 - Wire works entrance gate, decorated with flags and flora, with sign reading "Life's Joys Be Yours" - early 20th cent

4 - Wire works canteen exterior, with bridge and river in view - early 20th cent

5 - Group photograph of over 100 workers on the bridge outside Ambergate wire works - early 20th cent

6-7 - Shots leading towards the reservoir, by the Derwent Valley Water Board - late 19th cent

8-9 - Photographs of young workmen standing beside a pipe leading to the reservoir - late 19th cent

10 - Workers on railway track, with "Steam Navvy" excavating machine - late 19th cent

11 - Workers and wagons near Ambergate reservoir - late 19th cent

12 - 3 young men in smart dress posing by wagons in front of the reservoir - late 19th cent

13-14 - Group photographs of [railway or construction] workers - late 19th cent

15 - Car (licence RA7825) in flooded street, with small crowd visible in background - early 20th cent

16 - "The Keeper's Cottage" [?near wire works], with wagon and engine in view at top of hill behind building - early 20th cent

17 - Damage to Holden and Sons Furniture Works, Belper, after a fire - 1905

18 - Holly Dene house, Ambergate - early 20th cent

19 - Group of smartly dressed young men by two coaches and horses outside a large country house - early 20th cent

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