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.
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Thoughts on a street corner, Leeman Rd area, then and now - Dave Brodie ... Bit of a long shot this but I’m working in the grounds...
Adams Hydraulics, 1990 - David ... Do you remember Ray Cox? He was a bouncer there> He married...
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- James fulton ... I was in Arklight for 2 months in 2005 before moving to...
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