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| James |
J. B. Edlingtons Co GainsboroughJust got back from the factory!I couldn't get many pics, it were really really dark inside. The whole shed were held up with like 2 foot thick wooden beams, and amazingly ornate cast iron columns. I saw where the engine used to be, the massive Marshall boiler, the chimney, foundry etc. All very sad! I were going to buy one of them columns off the website, but they had been sold 
I'll go in when they are knocking it down, and see what I can scrounge, but she (yep, the company is run by a woman) said that she wants to keep these columns. Anyways, I'll put the pics on soon |
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| James |
Sorry about the poor quality of these, it were real dark in there.
A silver medal they won in the 1920s 
On the left, where the Marshall steam engine used to be, and on the right, where the MArshalls boiler used to be! 
The assembly shop 
One of the magnificent cast iron columns that hold the building up 
The massive beams from 1885 that hold the place together 
The outside of the engine shed, with the remains of the chimney 
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| Cranko |
Really dissappointing james 
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| steamyjim |
Beutiful building 
Shame its getting demolished
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| James |
Aye!
Tis! Tis! I don't see why there needs to be a roundabout just there!! |
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| steamyjim |
Aye I know. Such a shame.
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| James |
A shopping place... bad
Houses... worse Roundabout... I mean WTF?!?!? Give it a few years, people will be like "oh there's nothing left of our old Victorian buildings, I wonder what they were like" and all that. Blame the friggin council and the government! And Thatcher!!! |
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| steamyjim |
The same happened to Swindon loco works
Atleast they realised and we have a bit of a GWR museum 
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| James |
Marshalls have a heritage centre... well they did have, but they knocked it down along with the factory!! 
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| steamyjim |
What the center used to be owned by Marshalls? | ||
| James |
Can't remember mate, I know there were a heritage centre thing, it had a black and white tiled floor. | ||
| steamyjim |
Cool, dam shame thats gone aswell
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| James |
Aye!
They are meant to be having another one in "Marshalls Yard" 
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| steamyjim |
AAAH, they got a like bush traction engine somewhere on a roundabout dont they ? | ||
| James |
How the hell do you know that?!?!?
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| steamyjim |
Taps nose | ||
| James |
Yeah, they got a Marshall TE on a roundabout
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| steamyjim |
And a plough
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| James |
the polugh is outside Tescos! | ||
| steamyjim |
Im good at this arent i
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| James |
The internet is you mean?
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| steamyjim |
No Old Glory is
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| James |
It's in OG? |
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| steamyjim |
Yup! | ||
| James |
Can you scan it lad? | ||
| steamyjim |
Scanners f****d
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| Roly Williams |
I'll scan it for you. Give me a few minutes. |
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| James |
Ahh thanks mate!! | ||
| Roly Williams |
http://images5.fotopic.net/?iid=y...ze=1&nostamp=1&quality=70 | ||
| James |
Thanks for that Roly
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| James |
Well sadly the factory is no more, and I didn't get chance of a look inside
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