Charles Cammell & Company purchased the Penistone plant during the 1860s to supplement existing rail production at its Cyclops Works in Sheffield. The firm merged with Laird, Son & Company in 1903 to form Cammell Laird and Company who commissioned this photograph.
A note in the Bedford Lemere daybook records that all 23 negatives from the Cammell Laird Sheffield series were sent to the Sheffield offices January 11th 1916.
This is part of the Series: HBL01/01 Series of photographic negatives and prints; within the Collection: HBL01 The Bedford Lemere Collection
Source: Historic England Archive
Client: Cammell Laird And Company Limited
Photographer: Lemere, Henry Bedford: Bedford Lemere And Company
Steel Works, Industrial Heritage, People At Work
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