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GORTON WORKS · No 1 The Time Bookthe record of a working works

Works Nos 5000-5399

The Shops

The bays and benches where a works made engines: erecting, machine, boiler, smithy and the shed.

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21 units

Works Nos 5000-5399-050The Shops

What a reader should know about Rouergou

An independent French-language magazine on Occitan heritage and rural life in Rouergue: sections, editorial standards, and what readers should know.

A stone village church in Rouergue at golden hour, framed from a low angle across a ploughed field, warm side light on the medieval bell tower.

Works Nos 5000-5399-037The Shops

What a reader should know about reiki-usui.it

An editorial overview of reiki-usui.it, an independent Italian publication on the Usui system of Reiki, its history, concepts and cultural reception in Italy.

An open old book on a wooden desk beside a small paper lantern, warm afternoon light from a side window, close framing.

Works Nos 5000-5399-021The Shops

What a reader should know about Odelie

A short editorial note on Odelie, a Dutch-language magazine about culture, society and daily life in Belgium, and how it relates to The Time Book.

A stack of Dutch-language magazines on a wooden table beside a reading lamp in soft evening light, framed square

Works Nos 5000-5399-009The Shops

What a reader should know about NCPRN Review

A plain guide to ncprn.org for readers of The Time Book: what the publication covers, how it sources claims, and where its limits lie.

A wooden desk by a window with a printed magazine open beside a notebook and pencil, morning light falling across the page.

Works Nos 5000-5399-005The Shops

A museum image journal, read from a works history

What The Time Book readers should know about Vitrine Review, an editorial publication on museum image collections, archives, rights, and visual reading.

A museum photography studio bench with a single industrial machine part on grey seamless paper, soft daylight from a high window, shot straight on with the lights and stands visible at the frame edges.

No 5309The Shops

The shed and the canal

Why the works was called the Tank, what the canal depot did, and how water and land decided the site in 1848.

A railway shed with locomotives under a haze of steam, beside a canal arm and reservoir banks in flat Manchester light.

No 5233The Shops

The boiler shop and the smithy

What the boiler makers and smiths made, how the loudest trades worked, and what a riveted boiler asked of the men who built it.

A boiler shop corner with a locomotive boiler barrel on rollers, rivet holes along its seams, and a forge fire glowing in the smithy beyond.

No 5117The Shops

The machine shop

What the machine shop made, how it was organised, and why it was where the works taught its own.

A long machine shop bay with rows of belt-driven lathes, swarf on the floor, and a fitter's bench under a north light.

No 5042The Shops

The erecting shop

What the erecting shop was, what happened inside it, and why the whole works was measured against it.

A vast erecting shop interior with locomotive frames on trestles, an overhead travelling crane, and fitters working beneath high windows.