Album of photographs of the works and its site, taken at different times, and some...

Some have been used as illustrations in the various brochures and articles listed in SY/389/B3/1-7. The photographs are listed in the order in which they are inserted in the album:

End paper Entrance to blast site 6 May 1925

p.1 Copy of a plan of Holmes Mills made in April 1828 by John Mathew Habershon (from the Wheat Collection in Sheffield City Libraries).

p.2 Copy of trade card giving notice that H. & J.J. Habershon were taking over the Holmes Tin Works in 182-

pp.3-5 Copies of three different drawings of the works made approximately in 1841.

pp.6-13 Eight copies of plans of the site made in 1828 by J.M. Habershon (from the Wheat and Fairbank Collections in SCL)

p.14 Copy of a drawing by J.M. Habershon of a gas producer made approximately in 1830.

p.15 Copy of a drawing of Holmes Engine and Railway Works. n.d. (18)

p.16 The old foundry, boiler house and offices taken over from the Masbrough Foundry Co. 1890

p.17 No. 1 hot mill. 1917

p.18 The tandem gas engine by Crossley Ltd. 1918

p.19 Gas producer for the tandem gas engine. 1919

pp.20-23 Four photographs of the mesta pickle and no. 4 cold mill. 1923

p.24 No. 1 hot mill 1928 No. 6 hot mill 1924

p.25 Two photographs of foundations for a warehouse. 1924

p.26 Coil pickling department. 1924

p.28 No. 9 cold mill 1925

p.29 No. 1 hot mill 1925

pp.30-32 Four photographs of the canal bridge 1926

p.33 Old foundry 1926

p.34 Mesta pickle erected 1923, taken out 1927

p.36 4ft. Regent shears 1926

p.37 Passageway, canal side 1927

p.38 View of goyt looking towards no. 1 hot mill 1927

p.39 South walk, canal side 1927

p.40 Acid recovery copperas plant 1927

p.41 Old foundry and part of offices 1927

p.44 View from transport offices looking towards cold mills and showing a stepped chimney from the old works, now demolished. May 1928

p.45 No. 5 cold mill (Southampton) drive. 1928

p.46 Test house. 1930

p.47 Rotary converter for electric pickle. 1930

p.48 Holroyd roll grinder. 1930

pp.49 & 50 No. 1 annealing department 1931

p.51 Laboratory 1933

p.52 No. 4 cold mill drive 1933

p.53 No. 6 hot mill 1934

pp.54 & 55 No. 10 cold mill 1934

p.56 No. 1 hot mill 1934

p.57 Coil pickling 1936

p.58 Cold mills 1936

p.59 Test house 1936

p.60 Laboratory 1936

p.61 No. 10 cold mill 1936

p.62 No. 4 cold mill 1936

p.63 No. 18 cold mill 1937

pp.64 & 65 Coil warehouse 1937

p.66 Casting shop 1939

p.67 GEC Grunewald annealing furnaces 1940

pp.68-70 Eight photographs showing the construction of no. 7 hot mill 1941

p.71 Inspection department 1943

p.72 & 73 Hardening and tempering department 1943

pp.74 & 75 No. 7 hot mill 1947

p. 76 Inspection department 1948

p. 77 No. 10 sub-station 1948

p. 78 Birlec indicator panel, no. 7 annealing department 1948

p. 79 View from blastsite looking east 1948

p. 80 De-seaming 1948

p. 81 Billet chipping 1948

p. 82 Unloading billets 1948

p. 83 Burning slabs

p. 84 Kestner pickle department 1948

p. 85 Lee-Wilson annealing furnaces 1948

p. 86 No. 7 annealing department 1948

p. 87 General offices 1949

p. 88 Pouring into a mould 1949

p. 89 Tapping the cupola 1949

pp. 90-92 Three views in the blacksmiths' department 1949

p. 93 Mattison grinder 1949

p. 94 Edge dressing 1949

p. 95 No. 35 furnace 1949

p. 96 Personnel in the machine shop 1949

pp. 97-99 Three views of the machine shop 1949

p. 100 Personnel in the pickle department 1949

p. 101 Personnel in the annealing department 1949

p. 102 Holmes Mills Prize Band 1949

p. 103 Old age pensioners 1949