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Description: | An aerial view of the works showing Stafford Road (running left to right in lower half of image), with Showell Road off it. The Stores, Warehouse and Switchgear Drawing Office can be seen bordering Stafford Road (on the right hand corner adjoining Showell Road). On the left hand corner opposite, is Bushbury's first Co-operative shop. The buildings further up Showell Road (to the left of the factory buildings) are the Pattern Stores and Shop,and the Transformer Testing Department. The square-shaped building amongst the trees to the right of the image, is Gorsebrook House that housed the head office, boardroom, advertising department, and transformer drawing offices of the company. The long narrow factory buildings housed the Switchgear Shop, the Winding Shop, the Small Fitting Shop, the Machine Shop, the Main Test area and the Core and Commutator Shop. They also housed the Boiler and Power Houses. The building just north of the chimney stack was an overhead tank. The twin buildings to the left of the stack housed the Iron and Brass Foundries. The long building at the top just below the railway, comprises the Large Erecting Shop and the Glass Blowing and Rectifier Department. The railway to the left over the viaduct is the London & North Western Railway. The line below that with the steam locomotive is the company's own siding. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton City Council | Subjects: | Photograph Photographs Electrical industry | Temporal: | 1921 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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