Office block on Greg Street
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Office block on Greg Street
Image: © Geoff Royle Taken: 1 Jun 2009
The original building housed the drawing office and management services of Craven Brothers (Manchester) Ltd. The firm were makers of massive, made to measure, metal-cutting machines. Here are just a few examples, lathes; grinders; vertical boring mills; turbine gear-tooth cutters; wagon wheel profile lathes and https://www.g4fas.net/craven-brothers-manchester-limited.html Remarkably most of the details were made on site, from cast-iron bed sections weighing 30 tonnes apiece down to the smallest screws. Time served apprentices received no indentures except for a pat on the back and advised to "Just tell 'em where you're from lad !"
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Image Location
Latitude
53.433162
Longitude
-2.160229