Once upon a time these low buildings – ‘Adams Hydraulics – Engineers and Ironfounders’ – occupied the site by the Foss where the massive bulk of the DEFRA building was built in the later 1990s.
-
Recent comments
- Mike K ... Hi again Lisa, Done a bit of digging and can't find the...
Rougier Street and All Saints Lane - Mike K ... Hi Lisa, Apologies if you know this already. I have an article...
Rougier Street and All Saints Lane - Lisa ward ... I have not heard of this lady but my great great grandfather...
Rougier Street and All Saints Lane - Trev; ... I agree with Stephen.Good work Lisa.
'Castle Gateway' and the Castle car park, 1947-2017 - Stephen ... As usual,an elegant and informed overview/opinion of an important YC project.Well done...
'Castle Gateway' and the Castle car park, 1947-2017 - James ... I was there '90-93 (I did my GCSE foundation year). I loved...
New term: York Sixth Form College, 1985 - Drake ... have lots of good memories of 1987 York holiday,staying just outside the...
Bellringing, notes and queries: 1940s, 1980s, and now - angela ... I worked at white swan in 1979
White Swan, Piccadilly, again - All comments »
- Mike K ... Hi again Lisa, Done a bit of digging and can't find the...
I served my apprenticeship at Adams Hydraulics I am now 72 and live in Belgium,so many good memories of the time there and the people I worked with and my interest in photography started there and led me to Eupen in Belgium.
Bit of a long shot this but I’m working in the grounds of a Littleton hall Chester and have discovered a sewage filtration are with an Adams name plate attached . Have you any idea if / how I could trace evidence of the installation. Of relevance maybe the fact that an Adams sewage pump was installed on the nearby A41 at the request of Chester city council