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
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 / 22/02/2006 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Flying Scotsman boiler at Rileys of Bury Master MiniDV 'Flying Scotsman boiler repair' 2006-02-22
18-19/05/2011 / Work continues on Flying Scotsman at Rileys Bury Master MiniDV 'Flying Scotsman, at Rileys Bury' 2011
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
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
Di12/07/2011 Master MiniDV 'Flying Scotsman, the loco jacked up and the wheels taken out at Rileys Bury' 2011-07-12
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
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
03/02/2011 / Chasis leaving National Railway Museum for Rileys at Bury Master MiniDV 'Flying Scotsman chassis leaving NRM' 2011-02-03
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
18-19/05/2011 / Work continues on Flying Scotsman at Rileys Bury Master MiniDV 'Flying Scotsman, at Rileys Bury' 2011
17/02/2011 / Successful boiler hydraulic test at Rileys Master MiniDV 'Flying Scotsman, successful boiler hydraulic test' 2011-02-17
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
04/2010 / Recopy / Flying Scotsman rushes, hot rivetting the boiler at Rileys Bary Master MiniDV 'Flying Scotsman update' 2010
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
A Simpson & Godlee Limited branded folder containing photographic prints and one photographic transparency showing the three manufacturing sites of Simpson & Godlee at Dean’s Mill Printing Company, Swinton, Know Mill Printing Company, Entwistle, and Bevis Green Works, Walmersley, and the office and warehouse at 8 Minshull Street, Manchester. The images include exterior and aerial photographs of the sites and photographs of employees outside the sites, as well as interior photographs of employees at work and finished textile products. c 1890-c 1950. A collection of photographs relating to Simpson and Godlee Limited circa 1890-circa 1950