English: In Staveley Works: an ex-Midland 0-6-0T - and a little boy.

The Staveley Iron & Steel (and Chemical) Works was unusual in hiring locomotives for internal shunting work from the Main Line Railways, in this case the Midland/LMSR/BR-London Midland Region. This resulted in four of the Midland 1F 0-6-0Ts of 1878 lasting several years after the rest of the class, allocated to Barrrow Hill Depot at Staveley, working at Staveley Works, of which No. 41804 here is one of them. How on earth the little boy on the bicycle came to be there is a mystery
[The precise location of the photograph may well need correction]

(Comment by Chris Bower [member of the public] - My father and grandfather worked at Staveley Works / Staveley Chemicals. I was born in 1957 and it was not unusual in the 50s and 60s for children to accompany their dads onto the site either on foot or on bike to pick up their dad's weekly wages - I heard my dad say his payroll number so many times that I can still quote it 50 years later "25 82 Bower". In the 60s I often went onto the old 100ton/day sulphuric acid plant where my dad worked and was allowed to press the fire alarm test button ! Dad's work colleages occasionally gave me an old sixpenny bit (2.5p) when I visited) .