Gallery of Manufacturing Images 5

What's in the gallery?

This gallery contains a selection of photographs, drawings and maps reflecting the diversity of industry that has taken place over the years. At present this is only a small portion of the collection that we hold in the archive. Over the coming months new images will be added until the whole archive is available online. Even then we hope the new material will become available to keep the collection up-to-date. We must never lose sight of the fact, today's happening is tomorrow's history.

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  Robert Ruymp's Brick and Tile works in Sprowston
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  David White, chairman of Start-rite shoe factory in 1978 beside a portrait of Charles Winter, the founders Grandson
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  Receipt for Deposit on House to be built by Grange & Samuel on Cozens. Hardy Road. The 1930s
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  Hard at work in the Tom Smith cracker factory in the 1960s.
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  Adelman Goodman, who started the Florida Shoe Factory on Salhouse Road in the old World War 1 aircraft hangar.
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  Traction Engine (Burrell) in yard of T.W. Page and Son, Well Borers and Engineers, Hooper Lane, now the Showmen’s Guild site.
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  Resurfacing Sprowston Rd in the early 1950s corn store, bakery and garage visible in the background.
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  Poster showing the factory in Crome road. In 1966 James Southall became the Parent company of Start-rite Shoes.
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  Brick Yard workers It appears the man sat on the barrow with trousers rolled up has been pugging. Date 1890s
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  Blanch's Coal shop 1945 in front stands the sign for the Norfolk Arms PH 1945
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  Page 2 of the Indenture, with restrictions about the use of the land by the purchaser W. Allen
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  Sprowston Mill Location Sprowston: Mill Buildings : Industrial Extra Architecture, Social History, The 1930s
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  Coronation Carnival Queen in Blue Boar Lane, Blue Boar Garage & Filling Station In the background – 1953
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  Memorial to those who died during WW1, 1914-1918, situated in the grounds of the factory in Crome Road
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  Sprowston Secondary Modern School, Recreation Ground Road. School Visit to Yarmouth to the Herring Industry, 1954
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  Tram shed offices, now business offices at the junction of Silver Road, Norwich.
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  Sprowston Road with the Mill shop on the far left of the photograph. Opposite Shipfields.
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  Map of Barnard's showing layout of 2ft. gauge railway system. 1940s
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  Sawmill in the Plantation Wood in BlueBoar Lane. The man with Spectacles Ted Dunger.
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  The Royal Warrant granted in 1955. With the Royal children grown up it was withdrawn in 1989 Start-rite Shoe TIndustry Date 1990s
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  Shoe last ex Bally's Shoes of Norwich. Donated by an ex-employee of the co. living in Sprowston
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  Shoe last ex Bally's Shoes of Norwich. Donated by an ex-employee of the co. living in Sprowston
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  Stone House Farm Dairy. J, J,DIXON Milk Deliveries Top. 1950 Bottom 1970s
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  Mr. G.R. Pipe (1900 - 1959) delivering milk in Cozens Hardy Road for J.J. Dixon from 1929 to 1957 when he retired through illness.
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  Sprowston Road Garage / Filling Station (Flowerdews). A 1937 advert from Parish Magazine
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  Traction Engine (Burrell) in yard of T.W. Page and Son, Well Borers and Engineers, Hooper Lane. Buildings in the background showmen’s repair shop.
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  Page 1 of the Indenture for the sale of Lots 31 & 32 of the Cozens-Hardy Estate to William Allen, Brickmaker.
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  Top B and P Sopwith Camels were produced at a rate of 45 per week in 1918. Bottom Aerial pageant Norfolk and Norwich aero club 1927.
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  Caley's cracker factory, before it became Tom Smith's on Salhouse Road in the 1930s.
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  Salhouse Road Industrial units. The unit in the foreground is Impress formerly the NACANCO and METAL BOX CO.
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  Sprowston Mill as it burned down in 1933.
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  Team Lusher on Tillet Road, Constitution Hill, Sprowston, the original base of Lusher Builders in the 1920s.
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  Title page for Barnard’s Wartime Diary. July 1940 to March 1943. By Mr. W. L. N. Bower. Original document is kept by the Bower family.
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  John Ellis owned a shoe factory near the Denmark, he also founded a Ragged School. He sold up to found the Saltley Reformatory
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  Linacre Avenue looking toward Blue Boar Lane. The Road on the right is Bewit Road. 1960s.
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  Fire at Start rite premises, which was empty at the time, following its earlier closure. It is thought that vandals were responsible.
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  A view of Mousehold Heath, with Post Mill in the centre of photograph, chimney left of Mill is in a Sprowston brickyard.
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  Mark N. Lusher, Grandson of the founder of the business.
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  Brass Plaque attached to various items made from remnants of timber from the Sprowston Mill. 1780 refers to the Robertson family acquiring the Mill.
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  Egg packers at work in the New Lay egg packing plant. The factory was on Salhouse Road on the site now (2008) occupied by Wilco*Fastfit the car part shops.
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  Ariel view of the Barnards estate 1967 to 1970 from over the Heartsease school play area. Showing Florida Shoes, Barnards Lodge, Tinsley Wire Company, Nacanco and Tom Smiths. Note: The large brick chimney stack still exists.
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  Florida shoe factory workers at Salhouse Road (Now Homebase site) Back row Jackie Comer, Heather Aldich, Mary Burr and Molly Taylor. Front row Mary Linch, Ann and Antia Goddard, Hilary Argyrou(Shorten).
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  Fire at Tom Smith's cracker factory on Salhouse Road in 1963. This was originally Caley's and later merged with Tom Smith's in 1953.
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  Maclarens Handbag Factory, Mousehold Lane in the 1960s. The factory was originally built by Grange and Samuel (builders) for their own use and then became Start-rite shoe factory after D. Maclarens closed.
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  Building the War Memorial Cottages on Mousehold Lane in the late 1940s. On scaffolding Archie Goodson, man on the roof might be W S Lusher.
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  Boulton and Paul P64 mail carrier at Mousehold Airfield. It crashed on Martlesham Heath on 21st. Oct.1933. It was not a success and a new design was created the Boulton and Paul 71A
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  Barnards employees with Long Service Awards. Third from the left, holding his presentation, wearing glasses is Fred Blythe. More correctly one time Chief Petty Officer First Class Frederick Blythe, Royal Navy. Fred worked with me in the export office at the end of his career. He joined the navy at the outbreak of WW2 as a rating and progressed through the ranks. Barnards took his war service into account with the view that had it not been for the war, as he worked for them before the war and after, the time he was away fighting for King and country was allowed as service for the company.