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Very interesting, thanks! Some of these have much more text associated with them than others (e.g. https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co87277
by peterclary 6y ago
Very interesting, thanks!
Some of these have much more text associated with them than others (e.g. https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8727792/0-4-inch-composition-punches-for-rockwell-typeface-series-number-371-and-walbaum-typeface-series-number-374 https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co87277...) and it's a shame to think that people have gone to the effort of photographing them and writing them up and nobody has seen them (yet).
I guess that this URL will stop returning results eventually. I hope nobody is antisocial enough to write a script to request all the items.
- peterclary 6y agoThis one has lots of linked records under it: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/documents/aa110015534/works-photographic-negative-of-wt-glover-co-ltd-works-trafford-park https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/documents/aa110... Including the interestingly-named "Works photographic negative of fan house before explosion, Hulton": https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/documents/aa110015881 https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/documents/aa110...
- pm215 6y agoAfter a little googling, I think this might refer to Hulton colliery, where there was a bad underground explosion (ignition of coal dust and gas) in 1910, killing 344 people. This long account of the accident https://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/accidents-disasters/lancashire/hulton-colliery-explosion-atherton-1910/ https://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/accidents-disasters/lancas... talks about the large electric fans used to ventilate the mines.