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Description: | There is a plaque on the wall at the other end of this building which reads: Atlas Works 1854. From these offices was once controlled the John Brown industrial empire. At its heightemploying 55,000 in coal, steel & ship building. The company locally were inovators in railway engineering and armour plating. There is also a saw mounted on the wall with a plaque: Norfolk Works Segmental Saw Blade Saw blade manufactured by Thomas Firth & Co. at this site around 1930 Donated by European Saw Services and returned to this site July 1994 by Sheffield Development Corportation For more information about Firth Brown's see: Firth Brown, a Sheffield Steel Company by Catherine Hamilton Ref: 338.4 S | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/ |
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01 Sheffield Attercliffe |
Rights holder: | David Bocking/SLAI | Subjects: | Sheffield | Source: | Sheffield Images | Creator: | Picture Sheffield Administrator | Identifier: | http://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend... | Go to resource |
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