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
- John Shaw ... Re: Ghost signs....the chippie at 47 Newborough Street recently underwent a restoration....
Ghost signs collection: within the walls /2 - YorkStories ... Thank you for the comment, have removed that phrase.
Fairfax memorial, York Minster - John M Taylor ... Oliver Cromwell is reported to have been Lt General of Horse,on the...
Fairfax memorial, York Minster - Tom Calland ... I myself am a student and this helped massively. Thanks!
Why does York flood? - stephen ... Very appropriate on anniversary of York's Baedecker Raid,to recall the places where...
A walk through wartime York - Philip Johnson ... Your site is bright, informed and always interesting . I forward it...
Survey: your thoughts please - DAVID NICOL, WORKINGTON ... Hello Baz, David here I still have the 4pics' that you gave...
Painting an 'iconic' ad: Bile Beans, Baz Ward - YorkStories ... Please don't throw away the 1970s nicotine-stained lampshade! So nice to know...
Cigarette lighters made from York Minster fragments, 1970s - All comments »
- John Shaw ... Re: Ghost signs....the chippie at 47 Newborough Street recently underwent a restoration....
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