Archive
The yard archive
Ledger extracts, crane numbers and photographs from 1874 onward, kept in the iron cabinet and read on request.
| Date | Record | Crane no. | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1891 | First crane entry | 0001 | A 12-fathom hemp hawser for the ferry Coalwick Belle |
| 1911 | House rule inscribed | – | Nothing usable leaves the yard as waste |
| 1936 | Fire inventory | – | Losses and rebuild order, eight weeks |
| 1946 | Wireless purchase | – | £4 10s, still on the forming top |
| 1963 | Frozen river ledger | 3391–3518 | 128 ropes laid during the nine-week freeze |
| 1979 | Longest single piece | 8104 | 190 m for the dredger Brant Maid |
| 1988 | Fire & cabinet report | – | Every ledger from 1891 survived |
| 2004 | Listing papers | – | The walk protected; two apprentices taken on |
Records are open to readers during yard hours; ask in the office. This is a fictional demonstration site and the archive is invented.