Warrington | Science Museum Group Collection

footplate, labourer, cleaner, fireman, driver; trade union; local departmental committee; railway welfare; mayor; school; Warrington; jobs during childhood; father, railwayman in Goods Depot, unemployed from 1926; first job, cotton mill apprentice; fitter with gas stove manufacturer; joining Territorial Army, aged fifteen; call-up to regular Army, 1939; service during Second World War; demobilisation, 1946; first railway job, labourer, Warrington; progression from cleaner, passed cleaner, fireman, passed fireman; joining trade union, ASLEF, active at branch level; joining Labour Party; elected to LDC; appointed ASLEF Branch Secretary and District Council Secretary; founder member of Warrington BRSA; elected member of LMR Sectional Council; experience of line and depot closures; elected local borough councillor and county councillor; service as a JP; election as Mayor; active promotion of Welfare Fund; driver. d.o.b. 1923-01-01, railway work 1946-1988, Warrington;

Whitehead, Harry

2000-11-27

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Nucleic Acid Purification System

Part of the fly-wheel of an engine

420A Amino Acid Analyser, England, 1989

Weezap, Low voltage circuit breaker

Cast-iron 10 Radiant gas fire

Fletcher & Co. gas cooker

Test sieve

Double ended metric screw plug gauge

ring gauge

screw plug gauge

ring gauge

ring gauge

250 micron sieve in three layers

setting tool

setting gauge

setting dial

Fletcher & Co. gas griller

Albany gas griller and stand made by Fletcher

Convector gas fire

Ring measuring micrometer set

Protein Sequencer, Warrington, England,1980

Copper circulating boiler made by Richmonds Gas Stove Co. Ltd

Persil Washing Powder

Gas cooker and kettle stand by Richmond & Co. Ltd

instruction sheet

Fletcher Type Bunsen Burner, 1910-1913

Double-ended M 36 metric screw plug

Adjustable external limit gauge

Gas-fired hot water circulator by Fletcher Russell Ltd.

Cast iron converter for converting a coal grate into a gas fire

Highly ornate cast iron gas fire with baroque style decoration and 4 flame shaped metal radiants

Instantaneous heater for lavatories mady by T. Fletcher of Warrington

"Newlyn" gas storage water heater

Kingsway' New World gas cooker, c. 1935.

An AGR fuel element cut away to show structure by British Nuclear Fuels Limited

Plate mill

Spelter dross

3 1/2" to 4" adjustable external limit gauge; pair of setting dials and standard setting bar

Whitehead, Harry

Radiation "Equator" water storage heater by Richmonds of Warrington

"The Surrey" syphonic gas room heater stove

"Radiation" sink water heater

Asbestos-radiant gas fire, 1885.

Whittle patent infinitely variable gear

British Railways cardboard box

British Railways cardboard box

Small gas cooker by Fletcher Russell and Co. of Warrington

Gas cooker by Fletcher and Co., Warrington, c.1890

Asbestos-radiant gas fire by T.Fletcher of Warrington

Chemical storage tanks