A selection of historical pictures taken at Crofton.
Honey Street Boatyard (The Honey Street Clock is now in Boiler House at Crofton) - Tony and Lew Cundick in ‘fancy dress’ some time in the early 1970s
Roy Simmons & Ron Plaster lifting the beam on No 1 Engine (E. Addis) Front of original GWR Boiler 109 Recovery of the Archimedes Screw Pump now on display at Crofton from the Canal at Hungerford Basin, 1973 Access tunnel from the Coal Yard to the Canal under railway. HRH Duke of Edinburgh visit – 8 June 1976. Sir William O’Brian standing on right. Side Boiler House after GWR Boiler 110 had been cut up & removed Relocation of the ‘Spare’ Lancashire Boiler from the Car Park to its current location beside Pumphouse Cottage.
School party visit (13/2/80) – volunteer standing on top of the boiler not known. Peter Smart wire scrubbing waterside inside the boiler 14/11/79. Basil Hunt relaying fire bricks to insulate the boiler 22/3/80 (photographer unknown). Releasing the Air Pump rod – No 1 engine (1969). Original GWR Boiler 109 in main Boiler House. HRH Duke of Edinburgh visit – 8 June 1976. George Waters & original GWR Boiler 109. Stranded narrow boat at Crofton Lock (taken during Newcomen Society engine trials 1949) N.G.Calvert. No 2 Condenser before cleaning.