Bobby Hunter

Bobby cutting out a section of Horden's old front tubeplate

Danny & Bobby working at the forge

Assembling pipework

Freeing HC No.38's sandbox levers

Bobby & Tom working on HC 38's smokebox

Working on Horden's cab

Andrew & Logan watching Bobby at work
(photo courtesy of Allan Symons)

Bobby showing Ben how to use a grinder

Preparing for welding on the Siphon G chassis

Oliver warming Fowler cab platework for Bobby to bend to shape
(photo courtesy of Alex Tyson)

Grinding back to good metal on a 21T hopper
(photo courtesy of Alex Tyson)

Alex & Oliver setting up a welding job under Bobby's guidance

In the welding bay
(photo courtesy of Ben Wilson)

Oliver & Bobby working on HL No.2's vacuum pipework
(photo courtesy of Angela Pickering)

Adjusting HL No.2's brake gear, especially the vacuum pipe

Bobby & Chris fitting HL No2's vacuum pipe

Threading a replacement vacuum exhaust steam pipe for HL No.2

Tom & Bobby bolting down HL No.2's new footplate, with Andy underneath

Bobby & Oliver making a replacement blower ring for No.2
(photo courtesy of Alex Tyson)

Soldering a pipe joint for Stanley
(photo courtesy of Alex Tyson)

Bobby completing a pipe for Stanley's vac ejector
(photo courtesy of Peter Weightman)

A crane tank collecting plate at Doxford Shipbuilders, Pallion, Sunderland
Bobby was a pipe fitter / welder at Doxfords & other yards on the Wear & Tyne
(photo - Bobby Hunter collection)

HC 38 at Weetslade washery (coal preparation plant for markets)
(photo courtesy of Bobby Hunter)

At MH in the early 1970s, Twizell being dismantled for the first time in preservation
(photo courtesy of Bobby Hunter)