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Stevenson & Cheyne engineering works Beside the Water of Leith, Bonnington, Edinburgh |
Coffee Break - 1993
© Copyright: Peter Stubbs. Please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk Photograph taken February 18, 1993
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Stevenson & Cheyne Engineering Works |
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Coffee Break One of the workers settles down with his coffee and newspaper, as the other, wearing the traditional headgear of a welder, white spots on red, practises playing the chanter for his bagpipes. |
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Here is another photograph taken during the same coffee break: and here a worker uses his home-made sword to heat his bacon roll at the brazier: These photos were taken on a cold February morning at Stevenson & Cheyne's works. |
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Stevenson & Cheyne Engineering Works |
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Old Machinery Here are three large pieces of equipment, stored against one of the walls in Stevenson & Cheyne's engineering works. One of these had been built in Leeds in 1865 and was still in use in 1992. It was a 'slotter', used for making grooves in metal. Looking at the maker's name on the right-hand machine, it appears that the machine is upside down! |