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Description: | 1st March 2007.
Image shows the plaque in front of the 19th century mobile railway crane located at Kirkstall Forge. It reads: '2 ton Rail Travelling Crane supplied to Isle of Wight Railway 1865. Purchased from British Railways 1967. Refurbished and Restored 1976, J.B. Hodgson and M.B. Hodgson.' A frontispiece to the 1862 catalogue of the Kirkstall Forge company advertises 'Ironmasters and Engineers' producing 'Steam Engines and boilers, wrought and cast iron railway wheels and axles, turntables, cranes and water cranes, wrought and cast iron bridges, griders and every description of railway work. 'This crane was manufactured here and sold to the railway company for ?200'. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | plaque crane Kirkstall Forge forge | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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