Mystery Photos: mystery1

Inside a Great Western Railway Good Shed thought to be located in the Birmingham area. Can anyone identify the actual location and date?

Clues - It is a relatively large timber framed and externally clad shed with what appears to be a tiled (not corrugated steel) roof incorporating windows either side of the ridge. Looks like the occasional electric lamp has been fitted and certainly appears to be some conduit for electrical wiring near the desk. It looks busy, but manual handling is very much evident, not much more than a sack truck. Shed crane on left has chain pulley tackle and there are shafts of horse drawn wagons visible outside, however there are also two electricity cable drums outside the shed and the clothing suggests the interwar period. Open straw filled box on small drum, right of centre, may say ‘Margarine’.

Robert Ferris

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