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RS1068-30 (DE330136) on road 9 at Plaistow
Photo: The late John R Mann, now in the Alan Godsave collection (© Alan Godsave).
The crane's roof seems to be in sections on the ground with a temporary canvas cover in its place, so it may have been undergoing an overhaul or repair of some kind.
Alan tells us:
"I am a lifelong student of the LTSR and it's successors and was lucky enough to be bequeathed around 700 negatives of the line taken in the early fifties by my late friend John R Mann who died in 1996. Numerically, according to his lists, there are just a handful of his negatives missing and hence unidentifiable. However, in the loose archive material that I also inherited from him is this crane print with the only clue being his initials in his handwriting on the reverse.
"My knowledge tells me with certainty that the crane was photographed in No. 9 road at Plaistow shed. This was the shed lifting shop road prior to the Luftwaffe's attention on 7th September 1940 when it was demolished by a bomb to leave only the back wall and the track remaining. It abutted the main south west wall of the 8 road shed and that is the wall behind the crane."
The crane's roof seems to be in sections on the ground with a temporary canvas cover in its place, so it may have been undergoing an overhaul or repair of some kind.
Alan tells us:
"I am a lifelong student of the LTSR and it's successors and was lucky enough to be bequeathed around 700 negatives of the line taken in the early fifties by my late friend John R Mann who died in 1996. Numerically, according to his lists, there are just a handful of his negatives missing and hence unidentifiable. However, in the loose archive material that I also inherited from him is this crane print with the only clue being his initials in his handwriting on the reverse.
"My knowledge tells me with certainty that the crane was photographed in No. 9 road at Plaistow shed. This was the shed lifting shop road prior to the Luftwaffe's attention on 7th September 1940 when it was demolished by a bomb to leave only the back wall and the track remaining. It abutted the main south west wall of the 8 road shed and that is the wall behind the crane."
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