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

Works Nos 5400-5799

The Trade

The apprenticeship, the trades a boy was given, the day and the wage.

every entry

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No 5630The Trade

The roll call

What a roll call is for, how the old site kept Gorton's, and why a list of names is the truest record a works leaves.

A works notice board with a wooden board of employee names, brass studs, and handwritten chalk marks in flat workshop light.

No 5574The Trade

The day and the wage

How a working day at the Tank was measured, and what the wage meant inside it.

Workmen in overalls and flat caps passing through tall works gates at dawn, a clock above the gate office window.

No 5518The Trade

The trades a boy was given

A plain map of the trades inside a locomotive works, and the quiet way a boy's trade was chosen for him.

A row of fitters' benches with vices, files and scrapers laid out, and a foreman chalking job numbers on a slate.

No 5462The Trade

The five years

How a boy became an apprentice at Gorton, what the five years contained, and what they were for.

A fourteen year old boy in overalls holding an oil can beside a massive lathe in a dim workshop, watched by an older fitter.