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An interior view of the Claudius Ash Sons & Co. Ltd. works in Churchfield Road, Walton, in 1914. Three men are working machinery. The man in the middle is wearing white overalls.
An interior view of the Claudius Ash Sons & Co. Ltd. works in Churchfield Road, Walton, in 1914. Ten standing men, in overalls, are working in the grinding shop. The grinding equipment worked by belts from the overhead shafts.
An interior view of the Claudius Ash Sons & Co. Ltd. works in Churchfield Road, Walton, in 1914. Several overalled men are working machinery, possibly lathes, in a large area. The machinery is worked by belts from the overhead shafts.
An interior view of the Claudius Ash Sons & Co. Ltd. works in Churchfield Road, Walton, in 1914. Four overalled men are working in the blacksmith's shop, with a further man to the left writing.
The interior of the Amalgamated Dental Factory Works, Walton, c.1967. A woman and four men are working in the Medical Assembly Department.
The interior of the Amalgamated Dental Factory Works, Walton, c.1967. Five men are working in the Paint Spray Department. There are water damped spray booths on the right and on the left infra-red ovens, chain fed. High class stoving and polyurethane paints were used.
The retirement party for George from the Instrument Department at Amalgamated Dental Co. Ltd in Walton, in the 1950s. George is in the centre of the picture, holding a wrapped suitcase with a picture of a dentist's chair, drill and spitton attached.
Electrical drilling machines in the test room at the Amalgamated Dental Co. Ltd in Walton, November 1945. Oscar Muller, who had been part of the Home Guard and then joined the company as an apprentice electrical and mechanical engineer in 1942, is on the left, and Tom Gilbertson is on the right.
The Amalgamated Dental Works, Churchfield Road, from the High Street end of the road in 1983, two years after its closure. The picture shows some factory gates and a 'Danger, Workers crossing, please drive slowly' sign on the wall.