Kays and Archdales, just two famous Worcester names lost forever, by Mike Pryce

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Noses to the call centre grindstone in Kays headquarters in The Tything, Worcester in the 1930s

The former premises of Edward Locke’s porcelain factory in Shrub Hill, Worcester

The grime of factory life at Heenan and Froude in the 1940s

A steam locomotive under test at Heenan and Froude

A bird’s eye view of the James Archdale works in 1940

The Bilford Road factory of JW Ward, which produced the company’s famous Capstan lathes

Archdale’s design office in the late 1950s

Mike Pryce

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