Thwaite Mills Museum
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World War II Event - Sunday 22nd June, 2008
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Thwaite Mills Museum
Thwaite Mills Museum - the Putty Store
A Traction Engine
Thwaite Mills Museum - Steam Crane & Boiler used
as an exercise (into & out of the river)
Thwaite Mills Museum - Water Wheel (1)
Thwaite Mills Museum - Water Wheel (2)
Thwaite Mills Museum - Water Wheel (3)
Thwaite Mills Museum - Gears (1)
Thwaite Mills Museum - Gears (2)
Thwaite Mills Museum - Lister Engine
Thwaite Mills Museum - Belt Driven Accumulator
Charger
Thwaite Mills Museum - Generator and a 'screw
feed'
Thwaite Mills Museum - a belt driven shaping
machine
Thwaite Mills Museum - blacksmith (1)
Thwaite Mills Museum - blacksmith (2)
Thwaite Mills Museum - blacksmith (3)
Thwaite Mills Museum - blacksmith (4)
Thwaite Mills Museum - wartime kitchen (1)
Thwaite Mills Museum - wartime kitchen (2)
Thwaite Mills Museum - wartime cake
Thwaite Mills Museum - wartime cleaners
Yorkshire Imperial Metals (Former Copper
Works)
Opposite site of former Skelton Grange Power Station
(just downstream of Thwaites Mill)
Bev Harrison Waves from 'Safe Anchor Trust' boat
'Lady Victoria'
Thwaite Mills WWII Exhibition 22nd June, 2008
'Safe Anchor Trust' boat
'Lady Victoria'
Thwaite Mills WWII Exhibition 22nd June, 2008
'Lady Victoria' approaches Thwaite Mills having
'rounded up' in the River Aire
Thwaite Mills WWII Exhibition 22nd June, 2008
'Lady Victoria' at Thwaite Mills having 'rounded up' in
the River Aire
Thwaite Mills WWII Exhibition 22nd June, 2008
Reece Kenny Waves from
'Safe Anchor Trust' boat
'Lady Victoria'
Thwaite Mills WWII Exhibition 22nd June, 2008
Reece Kenny 'takes the tiller' on
'Safe Anchor Trust' boat
'Lady Victoria'
Thwaite Mills WWII Exhibition 22nd June, 2008
Reece Kenny 'takes the tiller' on
'Safe Anchor Trust' boat
'Lady Victoria'
Thwaite Mills WWII Exhibition 22nd June, 2008
Reece Kenny 'takes the tiller' on
'Safe Anchor Trust' boat
'Lady Victoria'
Thwaite Mills WWII Exhibition 22nd June, 2008
Reece Kenny 'takes the tiller' on
'Safe Anchor Trust' boat
'Lady Victoria'
Thwaite Mills WWII Exhibition 22nd June, 2008
'Safe Anchor Trust' boat 'The Lady Rhodes'
Thwaite Mills WWII Exhibition 22nd June, 2008
'Safe Anchor Trust' boat 'The Lady Rhodes'
Thwaite Mills WWII Exhibition 22nd June, 2008
'Safe Anchor Trust' boat 'E Austen Johnson ??'
Thwaite Mills WWII Exhibition 22nd June, 2008
Thwaite Mills Museum (Looking Upstream)
Thwaite Mills Museum (Looking Downstream)
Approaching Knostrop Fall Lock- Looking Upstream
Lock Mooring on Right
(formerly wharf for sewage boats 'Trent Air' & 'Trent Cal')
Knostrop Fall Lock -
Looking Upstream
Click Here for the old 'Great Northern' Railway Bridge (1899)
Knostrop Fall Lock -
Looking Downstream
Knostrop Fall Lock -
Looking Upstream
Knostrop Fall Lock Moorings -
Looking Upstream
Knostrop Fall Lock Weir -
Looking Upstream
Knostrop Fall Lock -
old lock keepers house
World War II Event - Sunday 22nd June, 2008
A typical evacuees suitcase - note the wooden
'yoyo' and bag of 'taws' (marbles)
though I doubt that they would have been 'glassies'
(Mel)
WWII Memorabilia Items 01
WW II Evacuation Workshop
WWII Memorabilia Items 02
WWII Memorabilia Items 03
WWII Memorabilia - A Radio Operator
WWII Memorabilia Items - Radio Service Equipment
WWII Memorabilia - A budding Radio Operator
WWII Learning the Morse Code
Thwaite Mills WWII Exhibition 22nd June, 2008 -
Home Guard (1)
Thwaite Mills WWII Exhibition 22nd June, 2008 -
Home Guard (2)
Thwaite Mills WWII Exhibition 22nd June, 2008 -
Home Guard (1)
Thwaite Mills WWII Exhibition 22nd June, 2008 -
Vehicles (1)
Thwaite Mills WWII Exhibition 22nd June, 2008 -
Vehicles (2)
Thwaite Mills WWII Exhibition 22nd June, 2008 -
Vehicles (3)
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