The following links are to the three
'galleries' of photographs of people who worked at Parsons Heaton
Works at some time: -
All the photographs were written to a CD several
years ago and copies given to a small group of former employees with
an appeal to them that they help identify some of the many people
that had not been listed in an associated
plain text file. The CD was later updated with 'Bob's Bonus'
that included lots of music - this is not included in this website
version as it takes up a lot of website space and might be also a
breach of copyright if it were. The CD included a simple guide to
its use - see here!
(Bob's Bonus was added for Bob Hindmarsh when he achieved 45 years
of labour with Parsons plus Siemens.)
RS 16 December 2011
More photographs have been added in December
2014. These are of machine tools (including the gantry mill,
subsequently sold to China) and the visit of a delegation from the
Electrosila factory in Leningrad (now renamed St. Petersburg).
RS 15 December 2014
More photographs have been added in March 2016.
These are of Parsons TDO and a Retirement Party (circa 1986) at the
Comrades Club, Chillingham Arms (Photos 1-24) and of Brian
McDonnells Retirement Party in the Rose and Crown, Newcastle City
Centre in 1999 (Photos 25-38)
(The photographs and a list of names were suppied by John Envy.
Float muse cursor over each thumbnail to get photo number, and over
large photos to reveal names.)
RS 16 March 2016
More photographs have been
added in December 2020. These were provided by Ian Miller # who
worked at Parsons from an apprentice in 1946 until 1980, both in
the Electrical Drawing Office and as an estimator. Ian has written
down many of the names of people on the backs of the photographs
and these have been scanned into 30 images (a few with more than
one photograph). The set of photographs are best viewed using a PC
but can also be viewed using touch screen devices. Opening the
link below will provide a set of 30 thumbnail images. Each one can
be opened to a large size and faces in the photographic images
have been numbered (and named, if known). This information can be
revealed by 'floating' a mouse cursor over a face and 'hovering'
it for a second or so.
# Ian's father, A P (Pat) Miller also worked at Parsons and was
the author of a number of patents.
For touch screen devices the equivalent process to 'floating' and
'hovering' is to expand an image so that a face is clearly seen,
and then to place and hold a finger on a face. This should open a
small window with the number/name at the top. (This technique is
known to work with Chrome and Edge browsers on an Android device
but can't be certain for all versions of Android or any other
touch screen devices !)
RS 03 December 2020
During the 1960s there
was a rapid growth in the size of turbo-generator units. The four
documents below record how this was achieved for generators by water
cooling of the stator windings, increase in the pressure of gas
coolant, and other features including excitation systems. These are
described in the form of a patent filed by A P Miller, three papers
by W D Horsley, Phil Richardson and Bob Hawley and were selected
from a batch of printed documents kindly loaned to me by Ian Miller.
To view the documents (all in PDF) simply click/tap on the relevant
image. (NB The documents with photographs are fairly large - up to
15Mb.)
RS 22 December 2020
