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Photographs

The Magic Attic has a very extensive range of photographs.

The data base holds over 22,000 images from our own collection and others that have been

donated by friends of the Attic.

These include many scenes from the mining and clay industries which were once

spread across the area. Other subjects covered in the collection include

Transport, Entertainment, Sports and local businesses, etc..

Trams in High Street Swadlincote

All our photographs are available to be viewed and most copies can be purchased.

	John Avery, former manager of the Swadlincote cinemas, with the Queen Mother Horninglow Basin
	Eatoughs Shoe Factory - Burton on Trent Bretby Colliery (Stanton Lane)
	Paramount Car Presentation at a local Pipeyard
	Fettling a 24" pipe Hollands Fair on Gresley Common(circa 1947)
	Bretby Hall Eddie Avoth, Jack Bodell, George Biddles, Henry Cooper
	Stanton Lane Pit after closure Albion Clay Pit 1923
	Gresley Fire Brick clay mine (circa 1956) The Chums Coal Company on Gresley Common
	Swadlincote High Street Wragg's works (Vicarage Road)
	Looking aver Wragg's Pipe Works (from Hill Street) Thompson Pottery(Woodville)
	Swadlincote High Street Newhall Pottery 1900 (Klondyke)