Old Photos of Witham

Glass building at Hursts’s seeds in Station Road. New Bairds’s building behind

Photographer: Roy Gage, Taken: September 1963, Source: Roy Gage, Ref: M897

Hurst (formerly Cooper Taber), prizewinning glass buildings built in 1956. From south. Cooper Taber and their successor Hurst were seed companies in Station Road. Behind is new building for Baird’s maltings being built in Station Road, with crane. The copy in the album was made from a copy neg taken from a print. The scanned version on the computer was made from the original negative; this latter may be the clearer version but has not been printed out.

RefM897
PhotographerRoy Gage
Date takenSeptember 1963
SourceRoy Gage
Posted on Full size 870 × 861

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