Sheffield Collection (page 4)

Arc furnace in operation, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1964. Artist: Michael Walters
Arc furnace in operation, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1964

Inspecting a bubble chamber casting, Edgar Allens steel foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1964

Drawing office at a Sheffield steel foundry, Edgar Allens, 1964. Artist: Michael Walters
Drawing office at Edgar Allens steel foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1964. Photography of the technical side of manufacturing was important as it conveyed a sense of the presision of

Female workers sharpening saw blades, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963

Rolling plate at Edgar Allens steel foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1964. Artist
Rolling plate at Edgar Allens steel foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1964. This process enables a curve to be created on the steel plate

Loading bowling pins at Silver Blades Ice Rink, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1964

Bandsaw sharpening at Slack Sellars & Co, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. Artist
Bandsaw sharpening at Slack Sellars & Co, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. A female worker works with a sharpening machine

Female workers sharpening saw blades at Slack Sellars & Co, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963

Bandsaws being sharpened at Slack Sellars & Co, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963

Medical care at a steelworks, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. Artist: Michael Walters
Medical care at a steelworks, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. A doctor undertakes a routine test on an employee in the infirmary at the Brightside Heating & Engineering Works

Finished steel in a warehouse, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. Artist: Michael Walters
Finished steel in a warehouse, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. Rolled steel ready for dispatch in the steel warehouse at the Brightside Heating & Engineering works in Sheffield

Furnace feeding in the Steel City, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963

Teeming iron in the Steel City, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. This is the process of pouring the molten metal to create the ingots

Lab technician at a steelworks in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. Laboratories were essential for checking the quality of the raw materials

Pouring a small casting at Edgar Allens Steel foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963

Pattern for a giant magnet casting, Edgar Allens steel foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963

Control cabin at Brightside Foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. The steel can be seen being rolled in the background

Pole magnet casting from above, Edgar Allens steel foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. A view of a pole magnet casting from above with men working on the casting

Group portrait of workers, Edgar Allens steel foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963

Quality checking a giant saw blade, Edgar Allens steel foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. This is a good example of the kind of specialist tools that were being produced in Sheffield at

A group of foundry staff with technical drawings, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. Foundry management and workers gather around some drawings at Edgar Allens steel foundry

Forging pins at Edgar Allens steel foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. Artist
Forging pins at Edgar Allens steel foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. The hot steel is pressed between the two dies to form one part

Forge in action at Edgar Allens steel foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. Impression die forging pounds or presses metal between two dies (called tooling)

Close-up of a forge being worked at Edgar Allens foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1962

Loading a steam wagon with scrap at a steel foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1965

Lab technician with a slide rule, Edgar Allens steel foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1962. Before the invention of cheap electronic calculators, slide rules had to be used to work out formulae

Laboratory, Edgar Allen Steel foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1962. Both raw materials and the finished products had to be tested to ensure the quality that Sheffield steel was known for

Railway track work at Edgar Allens steel foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1962. Like a giant train set, track work is laid out in the foundry yard with workers

Edgar Allen steel foundry, Meadowhall, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1962. Artist
Edgar Allen steel foundry, Meadowhall, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1962. Work is being carried out on a dragline bucket on the right of the photograph whilst a giant counterweight hangs above

Constructing a dragline bucket, Edgar Allens steel foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1962. Dragline buckets are used extensively in quarrying and also for dredging

Packing drill bits and pneumatic bits at a steel foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1962
Packing drill bits and pneumatic bits, Edgar Allens steel foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1962. During the 1960s, Sheffield steel was known throughout the world for its quality

Sports shop interior, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1961. Artist: Michael Walters
Sports shop interior, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1961. The interior of Sugg Sports in central Sheffield, showing the shoe department with a comprehensive range of sports shoes

Interior of Sugg Sports shop, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1961. Artist: Michael Walters
Interior of Sugg Sports shop, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1961. The photograph shows a frame tent on display in the shop

Suggs sports shop interior, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1961. Artist: Michael Walters
Suggs sports shop interior, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1961. The interior of Sugg Sports in Sheffield city centre. The photographs show a variety of sports goods, including archery equipment

Suggs, Castle Street branch, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. Artist: Michael Walters
Sugg s, Castle Street branch, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. A prospective customer surveys the range of goods in the window of Suggs in Castle Street in central Sheffield in 1963

Suggs sports store, Paragon Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1967. Suggs Sports traded for many year in the centre of Sheffield

Pupils talking on a stairway, Tapton Hall Secondary Modern School, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1960

Tapton Hall Secondary Modern School, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1960. Teachers watch over an assembly from a balcony

Whiskey blending at Wiley & Co, a Sheffield bonded warehouse, South Yorkshire, 1960

Weighing barrels of blended whisky at Wiley & Co, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1960

Checking the temperature of molten steel, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1964. Artist
Checking the temperature of molten steel, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1964. To enable the temperature of molten steel to be taken, an immersion pyrometer has to be used

Winter Gardens, Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Part of the regeneration of the centre of Sheffield, the Winter Gardens were opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 22nd May 2003

Toolholder turning a giant roller, Edgar Allens, Sheffield, 1964
Toolholder turning a giant roller, Edgar Allen Steel Co, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1964. A steelworker turning an A 2.5 metre roller. The roller is machined to create the smooth edges

Assembling a bubble chamber at the Edgar Allen Steel Co, Sheffield, 1964. Artist
Assembling a bubble chamber at the Edgar Allen Steel Co, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1964. The bubble chamber was invented in 1952 by Donald A Glaser

The bar mill cooling beds at the Brightside Foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1964. The steel bars can be seen passing down the bed

Lowering galvanised heat exchangers, Edgar Allen Steel Co, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1964. An employee of the Edgar Allen steel foundry directs the operator of the overhead crane as a load of

Continuous sharpening of longsaw blades, Slack Sellars & Co, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. The blades run on a continous conveyor system as they have yet to be cut into the appropriate lengths

Fabricating a giant extractor fan, the Edgar Allen Steel Co, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963

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