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No 1 Shop, Sawmill, 1909Huge 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
No 1 Shop, Sawmill, c1950sA 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
No 1 Shop, Sawmill, 1954A large elm log sits in No 1 Sawmill awaiting cutting into timber. The GWR used all types of woods from around the World
Timber planing at the sawmill, 1953A 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
Making tenon joints at the sawmill, 1953A man operates a double ended tenoning machine at one of the Works sawmills. He is cutting tenon joints out of pieces of timber
No 1 Shop, Sawmill, November 1934A 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
No 2 Shop, Sawmill, 1907Lengths 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
Old Saw Mills, Newburn Crescent, c1870Before 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
No 1 Shop, Timber Yard, 1928The 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
