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Description: | Ceremonial Spade, Bradford Halifax & Keighley Railway, metal spade with wooden handle, engraved silver plaque attached to handle: "The First Sod of the Bradford & Thornton and Bradford Halifax & Keighley Railway was turned at Thorton Road, Bradford with this spade by Abraham Briggs Foster Esq. of Queensbury, Yorkshire on 10th March 1874". | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | ceremonial spade | Temporal: | 1874 | Source: | Science Museum | Identifier: | 1988-7382 | Go to resource |
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