Old Photos of Witham

Glass buildings at Hursts’s seed in Station Road. New Baird’s building behind

Photographer: Roy Gage, Taken: 10 November 1963, Source: Roy Gage, Ref: M898

Hurst (formerly Cooper Taber), prizewinning glass buildings built in 1956. Cooper Taber and their successor Hurst were seed companies in Station Road. From south-west. 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.

RefM898
PhotographerRoy Gage
Date taken10 November 1963
SourceRoy Gage
Posted on Full size 914 × 901

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