Lesson 3 – Ship Canal
Item 1 Truck-loads of Canadian Pine discharged direct from ship to rail transport, March 1940
Main Image: Manchester Archives Ref GB124.B10/10/3/927 https://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterarchiveplus/5234485835/in/album-72157625534714792/
Item 2 Discharging meat at Manchester Docks, probably from Ireland, Scotland, or mainland Europe, c.1920s
Main Image: Manchester Archives Ref GB124.B10/10/3/870 https://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterarchiveplus/5234485565/in/album-72157625534714792/
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Lesson 3 – Ship Canal
Item 3 The ‘City of Bath’ discharging 30,000 bales of Indian cotton, 28 March 1938
Main Image: Manchester Archives Ref GB124.B10/10/3/739 https://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterarchiveplus/5235077340/in/album-72157625534714792/
Item 4 Unloading bales of Virginia tobacco for the Imperial Tobacco Company, Trafford Wharf Warehouse, no date
Main Image: Scanned from glass lantern slides, Manchester Archives Ref GB124/B10/10/8/61 https://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterarchiveplus/18230235820/in/album-72157653537700508/
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Item 5 Hovis Flour Mill (from ‘Trafford Park – an Ideal site for your factory’ brochure), 1919
Main Image: Manchester Archives Ref Trafford Park (338.0942T5) p 22
Item 6 Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant (from ‘Trafford Park – an Ideal site for your factory’ brochure), 1919
Main Image: Manchester Archives Ref Trafford Park (338.0942T5) p 32 https://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterarchiveplus/16767268463/in/album-72157651977360189/
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Item 7 Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co (from ‘Trafford Park – an Ideal site for your factory’ brochure), 1919
Main Image: Manchester Archives Ref Trafford Park (338.0942T5) p 44 https://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterarchiveplus/17385552942/in/album-72157651977360189/
Item 8 Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant (from ‘Trafford Park – an Ideal site for your factory’ brochure), 1919
Main Image: Manchester Archives Ref Trafford Park (338.0942T5) p 40 https://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterarchiveplus/17387183901/in/album-72157651977360189/
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