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Jam jar filling machine

circa 1940

Electrical adapter travel kit, around 1930

1920-1930

Hollander Beater

1900-1925

Teenagers in a factory in Ramsbottom

1964-11-13

CCTV installed at Yates Duxbury and Sons Ltd.

14 August 1961

Ashworth & Parker Electricity Generating Set

1910
Lever escapement pocket watch beating tenths of a second, signed on the back plate 'Wm Williams 32 Rock St Bury. No 19289.' and on the dial 'PATENT No 4762 MARCH 26TH 1890 by WILLM. WILLIAMS BURY', in sterling silver case hallmarked at Chester in 1890, with winding square and hand adjusting square under the back cover. The watch has hour, minute, and small seconds hands, plus a centre seconds hand rotating once every two seconds. A stop mechanism acting directly on the balance wheel and operated by a slide on the side of the case allows use as a stopwatch.

Pocket watch and stop watch

1890
Black and white photograph entitled 'Black Pudding Stall, Bury Market, 1980', taken by Sefton Samuels. See page 81 in 'Northerners. Portrait of a No-Nonsense People' by Sefton Samuels, published by Ebury Press, 2011.

Black Pudding Stall, Bury Market, 1980

1980
One photograph titled ‘Cotton’. Handwritten caption on the back reads: ‘Memorial to John Kay, Bury inventor of the fly-shuttle 1733’. [Dates provided are an estimate based on similar photographs on SSPL: https://www.ssplprints.com/search/artist/142147/crabtree-j-a. However, this is likely a copy print of an older print or negative and could therefore date from decades later.]

Daily Herald Photograph: John Kay memorial

1880-1890
Rushes / 26/10/2005 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Original film damaged / Handover of Class 101 at Bury Bolton street, E. lancs (lanes?) railway including cab ride to Rumsbottom; Ed Bartholomew radio interview, Flying Scotsman boiler at Rileys

Master MiniDV 'Class 101 handover Flying Scotsman'

2005-10-26
Rushes / 22/02/2006 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Flying Scotsman boiler at Rileys of Bury

Master MiniDV 'Flying Scotsman boiler repair'

2006-02-22
Di12/07/2011

Master MiniDV 'Flying Scotsman, the loco jacked up and the wheels taken out at Rileys Bury'

2011-07-12
25/03/2011

Master MiniDV 'Flying Scotsman, boiler onto the frames Rileys'

2011-03-25
40638

Master MiniDV 'Flying Scotsman, fitting the super heater elements Rileys'

2011-05-04
18-19/05/2011 / Work continues on Flying Scotsman at Rileys Bury

Master MiniDV 'Flying Scotsman, at Rileys Bury'

2011
18/01/2011 / Progress on the boiler at Riley Bary, includes fixing the stays and grinding the tubes

Master MiniDV 'Flying Scotsman, progress on the boiler'

2011-01-18
21/02/2011 / Boiler steam test at Rileys

Master MiniDV 'Flying Scotsman boiler steam test'

2011-02-21
16/02/2011 / Unsuccessful boiler hydraulic test at Rileys

Master MiniDV 'flying Scotsman, unsuccessful boiler hydraulic test'

2011-02-16
Part of a loom, being a mechanism to wind up the cloth as it is woven, by Hacking and Co. Limited, Bury, Manchester, England, 1912.

Loom Mechanism to wind up woven cloth

1912
Oil can made by A. Schofield (Bury) Limited, with accompanying catalogue.

Oil can made by A. Schofield (Bury) Limited

circa 1920s
12/07/2011 / The loco wheels removed its lowered back into the bogie at Rileys Bury

Master MiniDV 'Flying Scotsman, the loco wheels removed'

2011-07-12
29/09/2011 / The boiler and cab removed finding more cracks in the cross bars all at Rileys Bury

Master MiniDV 'Flying Scotsman boiler and cab removed'

2011-09-29
22/03/2011

Master MiniDV 'Flying Scotsman, crinolines fitted to the boiler Rileys'

2011-03-22
18-19/05/2011 / Work continues on Flying Scotsman at Rileys Bury

Master MiniDV 'Flying Scotsman, at Rileys Bury'

2011
04/2010 / Recopy / Flying Scotsman rushes, hot rivetting the boiler at Rileys Bary

Master MiniDV 'Flying Scotsman update'

2010
17/02/2011 / Successful boiler hydraulic test at Rileys

Master MiniDV 'Flying Scotsman, successful boiler hydraulic test'

2011-02-17
03/02/2011 / Chasis leaving National Railway Museum for Rileys at Bury

Master MiniDV 'Flying Scotsman chassis leaving NRM'

2011-02-03