Lost engine manufacturers: CJR Fyson & Son Ltd of Soham, Cambs Gallery
Believed to be at the rear of the Fyson family home, the Burrell is unidentified but believed to possibly be No 486. The picture dates from around 1885.
The landmark windmill at Fyson’s Soham yard, built from various bits of scrap which helped power their works for several years.
T2 leaves Fyson’s yard on hire to Brown Aves (who is driving) of Isleham. The yard is to the right of the photograph.
T8 on the belt at Pumfreys, a family still very much involved in steam preservation.
The engine in the background is the home-built portable, seen in their yard c1900.
An early Fyson-built elevator standing at the entrance to their yard.
Fyson’s first traction engine, T1, when new in 1894 in front of the shed where it was built. The man holding the child is CJR Fyson and on the footplate are George Powell and Robert Morley (with beard).
T9 on hire at Chalk Farm, Isleham in the 1930s. This engine replaced T2, which Aves had earlier hired.
T13 at the Cambridge & Ely Show near Ely in 1914. T13 was a rebuild based on Robey No 5187 and was not a happy engine, being somewhat underpowered.
T12 at the end of its days in a scrapyard in Hampshire in the 1940s.
T15 taken at Spinney Abbey c1939. The young lady on the footplate is the driver’s daughter. T15 stopped being used during the war when the firebox cracked.
Fyson’s No T6.
Not a hatless head in sight as T10 gives a treat to the Baptist Sunday School children through the centre of Soham in 1923.
T8 on baling duties during WWI.
T14 was purchased by Peacock’s of Haddenham after the war, along with T15, and both were towed home by T3, which they already owned.
T3 photographed in the yard of its last owners Peacocks of Haddenham after WWII.
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