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GORTON WORKS · No 1 The Time Bookthe record of a working works

Works Nos 6200-6599

The End

The run-down, the closure of 1963, the demolition and what is still standing.

every entry

3 units

No 6451The End

What is still standing

A stock-take of survival: the ground, the objects, the engines and the record that outlasted the works.

Overgrown brick foundations and a surviving wall of a demolished works, weeds between old sidings, new houses beyond.

No 6387The End

The run-down

How the works thinned through the 1950s, and what the men saw coming before the letter arrived.

A half-empty erecting shop bay with a single locomotive under repair, empty pits stretching into shadow.

No 6233The End

The record, 1848 to 1963

The whole chronology of Gorton Works in one entry, the spine the rest of the book hangs on.

An open bound ledger with ruled columns and ink entries dated across a century, a brass pen resting on the page.