Images Dated 2013 December

Nordenfelt anti-aircraft gun in V Shop, Swindon Works c.1915

This striking image shows a newly made 6 pdr Nordenfelt anti-aircraft gun complete with mounting platform and protective skirting. The manufacturing for all parts of the gun and surrounds was carried out in the Boiler (V) Shop. Some of the old equipment in V Shop was adapted for the deep boring of the gun barrels and breeches, but new machines were also purchased by Swindon Works for the specialised work. Due to the large amount of munitions work required for the war effort, a special arrangement was made for Swindon to purchase equipment and charge it to the Government account

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Great Shefford Station, 1958

A view of Great Shefford Station, West Berkshire in 1958. The station closed in 1960 after British Railways announced the closure of the Lambourn Valley Railway in 1959, a year after this photograph was taken. The platform is empty and eerily quiet

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1950s, 1958, Berkshire, Great Shefford, Lambourn Valley Railway, Platform, Station, West Berkshire