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Recording Vapour-pressure Thermometer, 1950-52

1950-1952

Paper calculating slide rule ("Paper Facts and Figures") by Blundell Harling Ltd.

Globetrotter Series ready reckoner calculating rule for mileage between European cities and currency conversion

1965-1972

M.O. humidity slide rule MK VI

1960

Globetrotter slide rule, 1960s

1960s

A cabinet card showing two girls in a basket by H Wheeler, Van Dyck Studio, Weymouth, undated. Albumen print

Two Girls in a Basket

8mm 50 feet film reel, footage made by amateur filmmaker, David Hodge, filmed in 1966 in Dorset. Filmmaker's description of the content: View of Weymouth Motive Power Depot (MDP); 34100 Appledore seen; 34100 in Weymouth station; Passing Weymouth MPD in train; Approaching Bincombe; Passing West Country on descent from Bincombe; The Army at Wool; Worgret Junction; Approaching Wareham. Reel B. Colour and silent footage. Some of the content of this reel may have been cut out and used in 'Bournemouth shed' films by the filmmaker.

8mm amateur footage by David Hodge, reel B

1966

messenger; clerk; Carriage & Wagon Dept; railway entrance exam; school; junior messenger; carriage and wagon department; LMS (1944); Canadian Sappers; daily life; entry exam; General Offices; troop trains; wages sheets; piecework prices; marriage; permission to continue work; d.o.b. 1929-12-31 railway work 1932-1953. Crewe-Shrewsbury line.

Evans, Maureen (nee Johnson)

2000-07-11

porter; signalman; single line working; royal trains; family; railway involvement; station porter; Great Western Railway; Weymouth Station; Maiden Newton Station (1932-1937); station porter; station porter; Cheddar valley line; single line working; tokens; staff; Cheddar Valley line; Second World War; VIP trains; Winston Churchill; top grade relief signalman; Southern Region, Weymouth; Sparkford line; royal train, visit of HM Queen Elizabeth II; Maiden Newton; d.o.b. 1912-10-26. railway work 1932-1977. Cheddar Valley; Weymouth; Yeovil. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Squibb, A.W. (Bill)

2000-07-11

Brown's Universal Rail Scale in leather wallet, for estimating rail wear, supplied by the Permali Group, Gloucester, made by Blundell Rules Ltd, Weymouth, c.1960

Brown's universal rail scale

1955-1965

A black and white pigment print photograph, originally entitled 'Location unknown, probably Isle of Wight' by Tony Ray-Jones, taken c. 1967. This was selected from the original contact sheet by Martin Parr, and printed from the original negative in 2013.

Weymouth

(circa 1967); 2013