Anybody who worked in the drawing office

Anybody who worked in the drawing office

Have a feeling my mom and/or aunty did. :)

I had a friend, indeed a good friend, who worked at Davy United when they had offices at Suffolk house, same sort of period. Unfortunately Alan died because of stomach cancer leaving a wife Ann and two daughters. Not only as loss to his family but to me also, we were both mad as hatters and when i think of the ways we acted, it still makes me chuckle.

I had a friend, indeed a good friend, who worked at Davy United when they had offices at Suffolk house, same sort of period. Unfortunately Alan died because of stomach cancer leaving a wife Ann and two daughters. Not only as loss to his family but to me also, we were both mad as hatters and when i think of the ways we acted, it still makes me chuckle.

I indeed worked at Suffolk House and can remember Alan, he was a brilliant artist, his surname escapes me at the moment. We had some good times in those days. i can remember him dying, unfortuneately. I used to see Joe Cocker going to work most mornings.

I used to be in a dramatic society with Harry Knight who, I bleieve worked in the drawing office

I indeed worked at Suffolk House and can remember Alan, he was a brilliant artist, his surname escapes me at the moment. We had some good times in those days. i can remember him dying, unfortuneately. I used to see Joe Cocker going to work most mornings.

His name was Alan Cox.

never worked there but did deliver the laundry into the office mid 60's

What year did you start in the drawing office?

My Dad worked at the Suffolk House offices all through that time. His name was Harry Hibbert. I remember being taken there as a very small boy and being given a swivel chair to sit in.

What year did you start in the drawing office?

I started in a branch of the EDO in October 1957, but the main drawing office was still at Park Iron Works (PIW) at the time. The new office building fronting onto Prince of Wales Road was still under construction so our Section (No Squads then) and one other, worked in a new extension to the Works Canteen. In fact it was called the "Canteen Drawing Office". (We took a lot of stick for that name).

These two section were the first to moved into the new building in mid December 1957. The rest of the EDO moved to Darnall a few days before the Christmas holiday. The last of the office staff moved up to Darnall in the spring of 1958.

That just left the fab shop at PIW and they moved into the renovated foundry building at Darnall over the 1958 works holidays. That was the end of Davy's at PIW after 115 years!!!

Regards

If we are talking about the old EDO in the 1960's, does anybody know what happened to Phil Kirkup?

We were apprentices together in the 1950's before we both moved into the EDO. I left D-U in 1965, moved to Dominion Engineering in Montreal (Another company with ties to United Foundry & Engineering of Pittsburg) and lost touch.

Regards

I first worked in the EDO at 19, so it would have been 1980. Worked on Phil Ripley's squad then on Jack Wilfred's squad. I still even have a few A3 copies of some of the drawings I did. I'd love a picture from over the balcony if anyone has one.

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sorry mally75 - but what have those photos got to do with the drawing office?