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Description

The original photograph is mounted on board. Inscription on reverse reads: “Given by Podmore family.”

The sepia coloured copy has been fixed to thick paper and has inscribed below the photograph: “Bock and Coley’s Flaxmills, Stewart Street, Foxton, 1912. (Negative held by I R Matheson 1975).”

The black and white copy has inscribed on reverse: “Original given by Podmore family.” and “Bock & Coley Mill.”

A sepia coloured photograph showing an unidentified group of 18 workers standing in front of the Bock and Coley flaxmill, Foxton. There is a man standing on one dray pulled by two horses to the right of the photograph and in the centre and left behind the row of workers are two more such drays. The mill is made up of four buildings.

Donated by Podmore family

2 copies - original is sepia coloured as is one copy, the second copy is black and white

Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit “Foxton Historical Society”

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