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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Contents: Ellesmere Port by Euan Corrie, p. 3; A Wiltshire Agricultural Business by Alan Ward, p. 25; Non-recovery Coke Making in the UK: The CoppÃ^e Oven: Part 2 by Paul Jackson, p. 35; The Chain Makers & Strikers Association by Ian Pope, p. 53
Article Snippets
From 'Ellesmere Port' : Another early twentieth century view from the embankment of the Upper Basin across the Lower Basin at Ellesmere Port. The grain elevator and mills dominate the background which also includes (at the street corner towards the left) the earlier Grosvenor public house. Its much grander rebuilt form appears in Image D. All along the left-hand side of the picture the Raddle Wharf is dominated by the ore gantry. This supported a travelling crane on which small tipping trucks were carried so that ore discharged from ships or flats could be carried back from the quay edge and deposited easily onto the stock piles. The basin is crowded with Shropshire Union flats, some transom- sterned former sailing vessels. Directly descended from north west EnglandÃÃ
