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no.422X

Vickers Naval Construction Works, Barrow. Steel Foundry

c. 1902

Photo of mounted photo for postcard, original image from Vickers Archive. Barrow Island Ward. Many patterns and sand moulds being prepared. One man with a bellows over a mould. Smelting furnaces on right. A casting is suspended on crane hook.

https://www.sankeyphotoarchive.uk/collection/view/?id=2089

no.422X

Vickers Naval Construction Works, Barrow. Steel Foundry

c. 1902

Photo of mounted photo for postcard, original image from Vickers Archive. Barrow Island Ward. Many patterns and sand moulds being prepared. One man with a bellows over a mould. Smelting furnaces on right. A casting is suspended on crane hook.

Location: Barrow-in-Furness Cumbria Archives Reference: BDB 86/1/229
Sankey Number: 422X

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