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  1. Martyn

    Witton and District Allotments Limited

    Hi Pedrocut - do you know from where this photograph was taken, looks like from the back bedroom of a house on Brookvale Road?
  2. Martyn

    GEC WITTON WORKS

    I'm pleased that the photos were of some interest, here's a few more. I can only assume 'D' is of a mobile searchlight built during the war. The others are of a foreign (Russian?) delegation probably early 1950s to the Engineering Machining Division? with 'B' showing them admiring a Magnet Wheel...
  3. Martyn

    GEC WITTON WORKS

    A wartime photo of the night shift and a few other pics from around the same time
  4. Martyn

    GEC WITTON WORKS

    I think when the cricket club packed up some of the pads/balls/bats etc were given to the orphanage at the Beggar's Bush, New Oscott which is now a Tesco supermarket. I was about ten years old at the time and on their way my father, who worked at Witton from when he left school just before the...
  5. Martyn

    GEC WITTON WORKS

    Attached is a map of the GEC site for visitors to the Family Day in 1951 including where to see the High Voltage Demonstrations.
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