| Description | Containing slides numbered:
58) Aerial view of the Grovehill Road entrance from the air 1955
59) Mr Charles F Deans presenting gold watches to staff for long service c. 1950
60) In the Beverley 1937 Historical Pageant, Deans and Sons provided the group 'Smiths'
61) The original site had been Tigar's Colour Works
62) Pre-1939 view of the factory from the entry to the gardens of Grove House
63) The senior executive staff, office staff and foremen Jul 1944
64) Key to the personnel in No. 63
65) The main machine shop in the 1930s
66) Lathes in the machine shop pre 1939
67) The welding shop, bus seat frames stacked on the right
68) The polishing shop with mechanical mop polishing machines
69) The assembly shop for the music department 1948
70) The stainless steel foundry in the 1950s
71) The nickel-plating shop c.1936
72) The nickel-plating shop c.1936
73) The factory from the air in the 1950s showing the large new steel foundries (circled) and Grove House as offices
74) View of the factory taken from the Beck in the 1950s
75) The bus-seat catalogue cover in the 1950s
76) Mr Bert Busby, Manager of the Music Department with a set of Beverley Drums, cymbals et cetera 1950s
77) Page from the instructions book regarding the fitting of automatic bus doors, which were one of the most important items manufactured in Beverley
78) Deans' 50th anniversary, an open day for the work force and their families held on Saturday 9 July 1955
79) The 50th anniversary gathering - catering tent on Grove House lawn
80) Later, the new entrance to the site was made with a new road down the bank of Barmston Drain, and the gates were moved across
81) Grove House from the back 1927
82) Grove House frontage, still lived in as a private house, 1927
83) Grove House became offices c.1938. This photograph c.1955
84) Grove House showing the new No.2 Bus Door Erecting building on the right c.1955
85) The bank of the River Hull, beyond the old colour works buildings, the original Non-ferrous Foundry of Deans had now become a paint shop 1956
86) The 50th Anniversary Gates on the new Drainbank road now incorporating the name of the partners Lightalloys 1983
87) The factory site from the air showing the large new foundry built in the field beyond Grove House by Lightalloys in 1960
88) A view from across the Beck of the Factory site 1985
89) An aerial view of the factory following the completion of the old entrance with its back of 3 cottages on each side still extant, all long gone now 1960
90) The aerial view of the factory showing the new foundry in the field beyond Grove House and the Lock and Beck 1960
91) The old Tigar's/Andertons/B.O.C.M. building of the original Tigar factory demolished in august 2009 - the Deans' site now occupied by industrial units and old factory buildings all demolished 2009
92) Looking through the Anderton's site to the units on the old Deans' site 2009
93) The last building left standing on the Anderton's site 2009
94) View of the Anderton's site from the entry to the bridge over the river 2009
95) Looking up Grovehill Road showing the wall where the original entrance and cottages for Deans and Son (Yorkshire) Ltd was on the left 2009 |