South Western Historical Society

Previous Archive Pictures of the Month

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2000

Portishead Generating Station Cornwall Electric Power Co.
One of the Oldest Exhibits at Cairns Road Mary Tavy Power House
Taunton Lighting Depot Taunton Arc Lighting Generators
Newton Abbot Power Station Early Appliance Exhibition

2001

Bristol Trickery Scenic Lighting - Torbay
Outside St Nicholas Church Exeter Power Station
Bristol Jointers Cart Okehampton Shop
Exeter PS Chimney Early Telephone Exchange
Cable Laying Torquay Newport Street Generating Station
Newport Street - Battery Room Newport Street - Generating Station

2002

Newport Street Opening Temple Back Engine Room
Offords Electrocar Cable Sample
Portishead Generating Station Portishead - Power Station Drawings
Plymouth Electricity Float Electricity House - Artists Impression
Thomas Edison Portishead 'A' Turbine Hall
Newton Abbot Generating Station Transformer Traversing Bristol Centre

2003

Clifton Suspension Bridge Redruth to Camborne Tramway
Underground Substation - Victoria Rooms Two Alternators St.James Street Taunton
Plymouth Float 1935 Electricity House in Camouflage
Commercial Bellis & Morcom Steam Engines
Control Board Carn Brea 33kV Cable Crossing - Saltash
Exeter Power Station Weston-Super-Mare Power Station

2004

Cable for River Taw Crossing Princetown Generating Station from the Air
Dolcoath Mine GS Westminster Tube Station
Plymouth A Generating Station 1954 Newton Abbot Generating Station
Avonbank Generating Station Plymouth Light Festival
Taunton James Street Control Board - 1892 Coulee Dam
Cairns Road Museum 2004 Bristol Cathedral DC Motor

2005

James Street Taunton Generating Station Lynton & Lynmouth Hydro Station
Bristol Tram Salisbury Power Station
Salisbury Power Station - Internal Brighton Seashore Railway
Newport Street Generating Station - 1902 A road crossing on the Hayle to Carn Brea line 1910
Portishead Generating Station - 1930 East Yelland P.S. 1953
Edisons Thousand-light Machine Cable Ship Tutanekal - 1896

2006

Mobile Shop 1930 Bath Dorchester Street 1921
GoogleEarth View Seabank Power Station Severnside 2004 Taunton Street Scene - Tram & Arclight - 1901
Voss Induction Machine Steam Alternator and Condensing Plant - Avonbank
1930's Control Room at Portishead 'A' Ilfracombe GS - 1930's
Engine Room lfracombe GS - 1930's The Telegraphone 1900
Exeter GS - 1904 Muller Road 132 KV - As envisaged in 1947

2007

Metropolitan-Vickers 33kV Metalclad SB12 Switchgear DWG 33kV Cable Crossing at Saltash by Brunels Bridge
First Floor Cleaning? Historic Computer Memory 60's
Another look at Bristols main source of Electricity in the 1930's MetVick Generator Arriving at Portishead for B Station 1947


Pictures From Visits by the Society

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Fowey - October 1997

Day Break Water Canon
The Beam Engine Dog Tracks on Beam
Water Turbine Power House - Exterior Water Turbine in Power House
Fowey S/V Kaskelot of Bristol
Figurehead S/V Kaskelot Waiting for the Steam Boat
The Steam Boat Members Smile

Tiverton Castle - January 2000

Tiverton Castle A Group of Members

Buckfast Abbey - January 2001

Buckfast Abbey Abbey Nave
Beehives Ring of Light
Source of Light - Hydro Power The Dart at Buckfastleigh

Bletchley Park - April 2001

Entrance to Stable Yard Colossus Restored
Dispatch Riders Bike German Navy Enigma Machine
Attentive Audience Our Guide
A "Bombe" Bletchley Park
Rear View An Unusual Film Prop

Snowdonia - October 2001

All Together Now Rescued from Bristol Cemetary
Portmeirion After the Shower
Steam, Smoke & Points - Ffestiniog Railway Dinorwig

Seaton Electric Tramway - July 2002

Seaton Tramway 1 Seaton Tramway 2
Seaton Tramway 3 Seaton Tramway 4
Seaton Tramway 5 Seaton Tramway 6

Morwellham Quay - May 2003

Morwellham 1 Morwellham 2
Morwellham 3 Morwellham 4
Morwellham 5 Morwellham 6
Morwellham 7 Morwellham 9

NTM National Tramway Museum - May 2003

The Introduction American Tram
Japanese Tram Outside the Sheds
Fellow Travellers Museum Piece
View from Tram Escutcheon
Glaswegian Working Tram

Chatsworth - May 2003

The Generator Room 1 The Generator Room 2
Chatsworth Dining Room
Library Cartoon
Sculpture Water Feature
Fountain Hidden Pool
Water Feature - Less Water Chatsworth
Mechanical Feature

Plymouth Seafront - June 2004


Helicopter Museum - Weston-s-Mare - January 2005

Weston01 Weston02
Weston03 Weston04
Weston05 Weston06
Weston07 Weston08
Weston09 Weston10
Weston11 Weston12
Weston13 Weston14
Weston15 Weston16
Weston17 Weston18
Weston19

Sussex by the Sea - October 2005

Royal Pavilion Amberley Visitors
Amberley Electricity Museum Ex Bristol Generator & Steam Engine from Wills Factory
Museum Exhibit Museum Exhibits
Museum Exhibits Museum Exhibits
Tesla Coil Discharge Late Arrival
Goldstone Pumping Station Goldstone Pumping Station
Barnstaple Fire Engine British Engineerium - Exhibit
British Engineerium - Exhibit British Engineerium - Exhibit
Arundel Castle - Verticals & Horizontals Arundel Castle Walls
Arundel Castle Medieval Keep Last Look

Electricity House - Old SWEB - February 2006

Before Electricity House Architects Vision
Close Bomb, House in Camouflage Post War
West Gate Rooftop View of Centre
Old Bristol Roofs Roofs & Lamp Post
The Visitors (Group1) Attrium from Top
Attrium from Below Glass Roof on Roof Top
David our Photographer We are in the Attrium
.. and in the Garage Clive, Graham and two Johns


Christchurch Museum - November 2006

The Visitors Our Host
Clearly Labelled Michael Faraday
Railings and Exhibits Invalid Carriage
Clive Sinclair's 'C5' Bournemouth Tram
House Switches Cable Display
Overhead Display Three Phase Mercury Arc Rectifier

Floating Harbour Cruise
& S/S Great Britain - May 2007

Floating Harbour Cruise Floating Harbour View
One of the Floating Restaurants Georges Brewery Converted to Appartments
Brunels Railway Bridge Inside the Widened Bridge The Far End of The Cruise
Restoring the Facade of the Tramways Power Station Bristol Stotthert & Pitt Dockside Cranes
Big Crane - Little Boat Gathering to Board
Our Guide on the Foredeck The Big Wheel Driving The Propeller Wheel
In The Passengers Saloon ..with Table Settings
Tall Ones Not Catered For Aft on the Covered Deck
View of The Deck Above The Bow Below The Waterline
Aft Below The Waterline - The Propeller The End

The South Devon Railway - June 2007

Museum Picture "Iron Duke at Chippenham" Broadgauge Engine "Tiny"
Austin Seven Travelling Crowded 3 Stage Coaches = 1 Railway Carriage
Sanded Down Railway Carriage in Workshop Tireless Locomotive Wheels //180
Gas Heaters For Wheel-Tyre & Rim Members Absorbing the Info
GWR Managers Observation Car Are You Sitting Comfortably? Then .....
Carriage for the Boat Train Special Footplate Instrumentation
ooking at Locos Buckfastleigh Station
The Notice on our Carriage Windows Totnes - The Engine is moving from one end of the train to the other
Reconnected.... ...Best Get Back On

Photographs of Items in the Museum

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Domestic Section

Bedwarmers

Earthenware Bed Warmer unknown make 1920s Surran Bed Warmer 1930s
Veret Ltd. Bed Warmer 1930s Chromium-plated Bed Warmer 1930s
DeeGee Control Unit for Electric Blanket 1950s Belling Bed Warmer

Coffee Percolators

Nickel-silver Coffee Percolator 1929 Swan Coffee Percolator Late 1920s
Morphy Richard Coffee Pot Model PRC 1960s?

Commercial Catering Equipment

Jackson Vegetable Boiling Pan

Domestic Cookers

Jackson 91J Electric Cooker 1920's Jackson 101J Electric Cooker 1930's
GEC Electric Cooker 1930's Belling Electric Cooker Model No 34 1930's
Belling Electric Cooker No 63 1937 English Electric Cooker Model 20-08 1940's
British National Electric Cooker 1950 Magnet (GEC) Boiling Ring 1930's
Hire charges for Electric Cookers

Domestic Wiring

1920s Lighting Modern wiring with Consumer Unit
Wiring Display Board Cornwall District Wall Display of Miscellaneous Fittings

Fires and Heaters

Apollo “Dowsing Sausage” Fire c1910 Creda Toaster/Saucepan Fire Cat.No. 789 1910's
Fire - Belling Type 301 230v 8.6amp 1920's Premier Fire Cat.No. 1201 1920/30's
Fire - Belling Type 761 Berry Fire - Berry’s Electric Ltd. 1930's ?
Art Deco Fire HMV 'Lincoln' C1938 Art Deco Fires From All-electric Show House
Fire - Creda Cat. No. 798 Probably 1930/1940's Nichro Fire 1-bar reflector British Manufacture c1940
Creda Cat No 905 2 bar coal effect fire 1940/1950's Phillips Fan Heater Type HK4260G
Portable hand-held Heater British Made Collaro Fan Heater Late 1930's
Heater Belling Model \"91A Champion\" 1961/62 Price £4 7s 2d Heater - Belling Model \"92A Champion\" 1961/62 Price £5 2s 2d
Sunhouse Convector Heatewr Sunhouse Coal Effect Fire
Belling Convector (Corner Mounting) Heater Copper Bowl Fire Believed 1920's
Magnet Copper Bowl Fire (GEC) 1930's GEC Aluminium Bowl Fire 1940's
Marsden & Baleson Copper Bowl Fire 1920 On loan

Food Mixers

Kenwood Chef Mixer Model A901E Early 1970s

Hair Driers

Hair Drier - B. Supreme (brown bakelite) - L. G. Hawkins 1938 Hair Drier - Ormond Model E1022 (brown bakelite) 1936-38
Hair Drier - HETCO No 49 (metal) Hair Drier - PIFCO Model 1060
Hair Drier - Morphy Richards Model HDA2 Sylentflo Hairdryer 1920's On loan

Irons

Premier 12lb Tailors Iron 1920's Premier 16lb Tailors Iron 1920's
Premier Iron with box 1920's On loan Redot 5lb Iron in original box 1929
Magnet (GEC) 5.5lb Iron 1930's “AA” BGM-Atlas Iron 1930/40
Alpha Iron Catalogue No. DM 1940's Garron Iron List No.832A 1940's
Wellco Iron 1940's Falco Iron Falkirk Iron Co Ltd
Westminster Popular Iron 1950's Prilect Iron 1950's
Rowenta Iron 1980's Iron Unknown Make -1
Iron Unknown Make -2 Fuego Travelling Iron 1950's
Clem Travelling Iron 1947

Kettles

Premier Copper Kettle c1915 Hotpoint Copper Kettle Late 1920's On loan
Swan Copper Kettle Late 1920's Premier Copper Kettle Late 1920's
Bulpitt & Son Swan Copper Kettle 1920's Brown Enamel Kettle Unknown Make 1940 ?
Alpha Aluminium Kettle Late 1930's Swan Kettle Type CH223A 1940's
Hotpoint Chrome Kettle Cat. No. 4022 1960's Creda Chrome Automatic Kettle 1960's
Swan Kettle Type CH303D 1960's Swan Kettle Type CH113E 1960's
Magnet Warming Plate

Lighting

Lamp Ammeter c1910 Display of assorted electric lamps
Siemens Gas-Filled Lamp

Medical

Magneto-Electrical Machine For nervous and other diseases c1912 Ogee Delux Vibrator 1930's
Electric Shock Generator Induction Type c1920 Magneto-Electric Machine Shock treatment 1900's
Rogers Violet Ray High Frequency Vitalator 1930's Vio Ray High Frequency Generator
Gamage’s Pifco Sunlamp c1930

Miscellaneous

Premier Electric Tourist Saucepan 1920's Empire electric trouser press British Made
PIFCO electric trouser press Made in England Westinghouse Waffle Iron 1920's
Pearson’s Electric Comb 1930's ECE Liquid Heater Made in Germany
R.J.W. Spoon Heater Cup Immersion Heaters Telsen
Major Pressure Cooker c1950's Electric Clocks 1950/60s?
Ronson Electric Shavers Arvin Electric Shaver

Projectors

Aldis Projector 1970's Aldis Projector complete with carrying case
Slide Projector with arc lamp

Refrigerators and Freezers

Frigidaire Refrigerator Made in USA 1931 BTH 'Monitor-Top' Refrigerator 1930's
BTH Refrigerator Model A.M.O. 1930's LEC Fridge-Freezer 1980's

Suction Cleaners

Cleaner - The 'Bustler' Stick Type 1920's Cleaner - Goblin Ace Model No 55 1940's
Cleaner - The Silent Electrix 1940's Cleaner - Hoover Junior Model 375 1940's
Cleaner - Hoover Model 119 Unknown Date Cleaner - Hoover Turbopower 2 1960/70s ?

Tea Makers

Tea Maker - Goblin 'Teasmade' Model D21 1940's Tea Maker Goblin 'Teasmade' Model D25 1940's
Tea Maker - Goblin 'Teasmade' Model D250 1940/50'- s Tea Maker - Goblin 'Teasmade' Model 288 1950's & 1960's
Tea Maker - Hawkins Tecal Model L.G.H. 1200 1940's Tea Maker - Hawkins Tecal Model L.G.H. 4400 1950's

Toasters

Toaster - Nickel plated two slice 1920's Toaster - GEC chromium plated Two slice 1930's
Toaster - REVO two slice 1930's Toaster - SWAN 950 & 951 600w 1940's
Toaster - SWAN 703 1940's Toaster - Morphy Richards two slice Late 1960's
Toaster - Morphy Richards two slice 1960's?

Wash Boilers

Burco Boiler 1930's Baby Burco Boiler 1960's

Washing Machines and Spin Driers

Hotpoint Washing Machine 1926 Thor Commercial Washing Machine 1928
Servis Superheat Washing Machine 1960's Hoover 'Spinarinse' Washing Machine

Water Heating

Santon Geyser 1930's

Technical Section

Cables and Accessories

Cable - 33kv Epr Insulated 33kv Submarine Cable Cornwall – Isles Of Scilly Cable - 33kV, 0.3 sq in “H” type cable Used for River Avon Crossing 1936.
Cable - Triple Concentric Straight Joint Cable - Triple Concentric – 3-core Tee Joint
Cable - Section of Ferranti 10,000V Straight Joint on Deptford Cable - .15/.15/.15 Triple Concentric – Bristol 1893
Cable Joint Marker Used on 33kV circuits

High Voltage Indicator

Ferranti High Voltage Indicator

Instruments

Display of various instruments Amplifier Type 5359E Amplifier Type 5359E
Data Logger Model CD6

Meters

1) Meter - Metropolitan Vickers, Type NE 2)Meter - BTH, High torque induction watt-hour meter
3)Meter - Metropolitan Vickers, Type N 1)'Maxiprint', Recording Maximum, Demand Indicator
2)Meter - Everett Edgcumbe, Recording Ammeter 1)Meter - BTH prepayment meter type AP
2)Meter - London prepayment meter 3)Meter - Landis & Gyr prepayment meter
4)Meter - Geipel and Lange prepayment meter 5)Meter - Berlin Type LJ prepayment meter
6)Meter - Ferranti Ltd. credit meter 7)Meter - Geipel and Lange credit meter
8)Meter - BTH integrating wattmeter 9)Meter - CH “High Torque” credit meter
10)Meter - Ferranti Ltd. credit meter 11) Pre-metering load limiter.
12) Wrights Patent Demand Indicator 13) Pre-metering load limiter.
14)Meter - BTH High Torque Induction Wattmeter 15)Meter - Brush Guttman Wattmeter.
16)Meter - “BAT” Electricity-Meter 17)Meter - Metropolitan Vickers polyphase watt-hour meter
18)Meter - Ferranti Ltd. type FLX 19)Meter - Landis & Gyr “ALVA” type CB
20)Meter - Electrical Appliance Co. single phase wattmeter 21)Meter - Ferranti Ltd. type FNE
22)Meter - Westinghouse Elec & Mfg Co 23)Meter - Westinghouse Elec & Mfg Co
24)Meter - Demand Indicator Reason Mfg. Co. Ltd. 25)Meter - Wrights Patent Demand Meter
26)Meter - CH maximum load indicator type XY 27)Meter - Landis and Gyr type FEFI
28)Meter - CT 800/5 50c/s Wrights Patent Demand Indicator Meter - Wrights Patent Demand Indicator (No 12 in display)

Meter Test Instruments

Drysdale’s Single Phase Standard Wattmeter. The Newton Abbot Cabinet

Miscellaneous

Engine Room Telegraph from Portishead “A” Power Station

Relays

Relays from Portishead “A” Power Station 1929

Service Cutouts

1.Cutout - BCED single phase and neutral, rewireable
2.Cutout - ELIXUM S & S single phase and neutral, porcelain carriers, rewireable
3. Cutout -B three phase 4-wire, porcelain carriers
4. Cutout -Cutout -Siemens, London 1104 single phase and neutral, (BCED LT)
5. Cutout -BCED single phase and neutral, rewireable
6. Cutout -Siemens 754A single pole, rewireable, (BCED LT)
7. Cutout -Cutout -Single pole rewireable, wooden backboard, (BCED LT)
8.Cutout - BI & HC Ltd. Prescot Phase and neutral, rewireable
9. BCED PWR single pole
10. Cutout -Siemens, London, 1104A single phase and neutral, (BCED)
11. Cutout -Single pole rewireable – unknown make
12. Cutout -Siemens 808 single pole, (BCED PWR)
13. Cutout -Siemens Bros & Co single phase and neutral, rewireable
14. 2 x single pole cutouts – unknown make
15. Cutout -Fiddes, Bristol single phase and neutral, rewireable
16. Cutout -2 x REVO single pole
17. Cutout -Revo single pole, porcelain carriers, rewireable

Street Lighting

Bristol’s Arc Lighting System

Test Instruments

AVO Model 8 Mk III Megger Earth Tester No 1088 M900025 ET 53/85
Earth-Loop Impedance Test Set Fosters Ediswan Weston Lightometer
GEC Illumination Meter Cambridge Fault Localizer
Tong Test Ammeters PIFCO D.R.G.M. Double Reading Guaranteed Meter

Plant Section

Motors

DC Motor - Ex Bristol Cathedral