a basis for fairness
Pooleys were a firm of mechanical engineers, founded in Liverpool 1790. Shown as Pooley of Liverpool in Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, the company originally made scale beams, such as shown here, a reminder of the origins of Humberstone.
A demand of the workers was access to a scale to verify company store weights. With this post I close this series of photographs from the Humberstone UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Click any photograph for a larger view and use Ctrl-x to zoom in closer.
Click me for the first post of this series.
References
Websites
Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works World Heritage page
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