Images Dated 2007 July

View of Swindon Works, c1860

This early photograph of the Works was taken from St Marks Church and shows R Shop (Machine Shop). Hundreds of wheels can be seen stored outside ready to be fitted to vehicles. R Shop now houses STEAM Museum of the GWR

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1860s, Chimney, Factory, R Shop, Swindon, Swindon Works, Victorian, Workshop

Medical Fund Dispensary, 1947

This large dispensary was sitauted on theground floor of the Milton Road building. The prescriptions were handed out through hatches to people in the waiting rooms adjacent. The Medical Fund Society in Milton Road housed swimming baths, Turkish and Russian Baths, a dispensary and a dentist. It was built in 1892

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Internal View of Frome Station, Somerset, c.1970s

An internal view of Frome station in Somerset, c.1970s, showing the overall roof designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel's assistant J R Hannaford.
Frome station opened in 1850, is one of the only stations left in Britain with a timber through train shed and is Grade II listed

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1970s, Frome, Frome Station, Grade Ii Listed, Hannaford, Overall Roof, Somerset, Station, Timber Train Shed, Train Shed