Weights and Measures Department

Weights and Measures Department

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Title Weights and Measures Department
Reference Number STH0023526
Photographer Unknown
Town or Village South Shields
Date 1912
Original Format Black and White Photograph
Period 1910s
Copyright South Tyneside Libraries
Further Information Staff of the South Shields Council's Weights and Measures Department based in the Broughton wing of the Town Hall. From left to right: Inspector George Edward Hagan, born South Shields later of Spalding, Lincolnshire; Assistant Rewcastle who died in Africa in the first world War; Assistant W P Lonsdale who later worked in Dorset as an Inspector; Chief Inspector W Newton Lindley; Inspector A G Strother who later worked in Staffordshire.