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Sawmills and Timber Yard Collection

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Background imageSawmills and Timber Yard Collection: No 1 Shop, Sawmill, 1909

No 1 Shop, Sawmill, 1909
Huge logs are waiting to be cut up here in the Swindon Works sawmill. A crane, spanning the width of the mill, is used to maneuver the logs onto the cutting machines

Background imageSawmills and Timber Yard Collection: No 1 Shop, Sawmill, c1950s

No 1 Shop, Sawmill, c1950s
A view looking down the length of No.1 Shop, the sawmill. A crane is carrying a large log ready to be cut into timber. To the right newly cut timber lengths have been processed

Background imageSawmills and Timber Yard Collection: No 1 Shop, Sawmill, 1954

No 1 Shop, Sawmill, 1954
A large elm log sits in No 1 Sawmill awaiting cutting into timber. The GWR used all types of woods from around the World

Background imageSawmills and Timber Yard Collection: Timber planing at the sawmill, 1953

Timber planing at the sawmill, 1953
A man operates a planing machine in one of the Works sawmills. Hundreds of metres of wood were planed each week ready for use on carriages and wagons

Background imageSawmills and Timber Yard Collection: Making tenon joints at the sawmill, 1953

Making tenon joints at the sawmill, 1953
A man operates a double ended tenoning machine at one of the Works sawmills. He is cutting tenon joints out of pieces of timber

Background imageSawmills and Timber Yard Collection: No 1 Shop, Sawmill, November 1934

No 1 Shop, Sawmill, November 1934
A young boy is operating a firewood chopping machine. It is not clear if he is an apprentice. Boys were often given the simple, more menial, tasks

Background imageSawmills and Timber Yard Collection: No 2 Shop, Sawmill, 1907

No 2 Shop, Sawmill, 1907
Lengths of cut timber can be seen awaiting processing in No.2 Shop, Sawmill. This sawmill was situated adjacent to Bristol Street in the Railway Village

Background imageSawmills and Timber Yard Collection: Old Saw Mills, Newburn Crescent, c1870

Old Saw Mills, Newburn Crescent, c1870
Before No 1 Sawmills opened in the far west of the Works wood was cut at a mill on Newburn Crescent. The men in this image have been busy cutting length of timber

Background imageSawmills and Timber Yard Collection: No 1 Shop, Timber Yard, 1928

No 1 Shop, Timber Yard, 1928
The Timber Yard stored thousands of planks of wood. Some stacks were the height of three men! The Carriage and Wagon Works was the biggest user of the wood


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