not sure if anyone knows but the club now has a website but it is still under construction. The link is here



http://laycockssportsclub.co.uk/

Went to the reunion last night and had a great time.....
But that lot don't get any prettier with age do they.......:hihi:

Damn missed that, but unfortunately was working afternoon shift so would not have made it until late at best !

Anyone remember Joyce Mills from the view room 1950's? She married Fred Toseland. She died and was given a wonderful send off yesterday 5th by her Daughter and Son in Law. She was a lovely lady.

I worked in the view room for a short time when I was an apprentice in '58/'59.Nearly all the apprentices at that time had a spell in there. I worked alongside an ex paratroop who had been blinded at Arnhem. His name was Tom, a great character with a wicked sense of humour.

My brother(Len Gilpin) worked in the View -Room in 1940, aged 17, then as a fitter until called up on his 21st birthday.

I came across a posting of yours in 2006 in Sheffield Forum. You mention a Machine Shop Forman called Sam Startup. My surname is Startup and it is a very unusual surname - I thought I knew all the Startups in Sheffied. My father taught Engineering Workshop Theory & Practice at Rowlinson School from 1954 until he retired in the mid 1970's. Several of his students went on to work at Laycocks. I wonder if you got the names mixed up or perhaps your Sam Startup was a nickname for someone similar to an old school teacher. I would welcome any thoughts you have regarding either of the Sams. I went to Rowlinson and unsurprisingly also got nicknamed Sam but I did not work at Laycocks.
Regards pete.startup@iname.com

Just found this forum relating to Laycock Engineering.
I worked for Laycock from 1971 to 1981 as a Service Engineer based in Norfolk. I remember well the good times I enjoyed when in Sheffield on training courses etc which were held originally at Archer rd
I was surprised when I visted Sheffield quite recently and did not recognise the area at all, rebuilt completely, although there was still a small part of Archer rd site still present. I remember starting with the company,and getting my first ever company vehicle, a Morris Minor van with the Birfield group written on it which was the group name before GKN.
Happy days !!!
Would be good to hear of any other menmber of the Service Dept.

Both my grandads worked at Laycocks well in the late 1980's,their names were Frank Brammer who worked in the overdrive department, he was asked by Laycock to run night classes at college twice a week teaching people engineering. He worked there from the 1930's upto retiring.

My other Grandad was Robert Ledger who worked in the offices at Archer road
Again he was there quite a few years.
Does anyone remember these people, if so please reply.

Hello--I remember very well a man I knew as Bob Ledger who worked in the 1970s in accounts in the Garage Equipment dept. A very pleasant man with whom I shared a drink or two in the social club or in his club on Nether edge if I remember correctly

Hello--I remember very well a man I knew as Bob Ledger who worked in the 1970s in accounts in the Garage Equipment dept. A very pleasant man with whom I shared a drink or two in the social club or in his club on Nether edge if I remember correctly

hiya does anyone remember a man who worked as a progress chaser at archer road ,i know he worked there in november 1972, as he made himself known to me as the husband of my dads cousin, it was shortley before dad died, his name was edric ??? a heavy set bloke, i only met his wife nellie once.i dont recall the surname though.

My Grandad worked for Laycocks during WW2 Making Spitfire parts
His name was Jack

I knew a man with a wooden leg called Jack.
I've no idea what he called his other leg though......:huh:

Speaking of artificial legs, doe's anybody remember Eric Bocking, a really nice guy....

No Sorry my Grandad didn't have a wooden leg

I'm talking the 80s at Archer road, I think Eric was a Skilled turner ?...

And I'm pretty sure he lived on or near Bocking Lane funnily enough ....

I'm talking the 80s at Archer road, I think Eric was a Skilled turner ?...

And I'm pretty sure he lived on or near Bocking Lane funnily enough ....

My Grandad was there 1940's onwards his full name was Jack Poor

My dad worked at Laycocks on Little London Road.

So did my husband.

Sad to report the passing of Malcolm Bramley on 23rd July 2010. Malcolm worked in the Data Processing department as a systems analyst from the late 60's/early 70's right through to the demise of the company in 1992. Those who knew Malcolm will, I'm certain, have fond memories. Malcolm was also a talented jazz musician and played the clarinet and saxophone for several local bands including New Stompers and Yesterdays Men.

I remember George Goode ! he gave me a job at Laycocks ..and i started at little london road and the first day i started they were on strike ..so i was given a sweeping brush .. .I had never worked in a factory before and wasnt sure what to expect ..and i went to see the foreman ..cant remember his name ..white coat etc hugh ! he said i dont know where we gunna put ya ...he just pointed to some machines and said learn that job theer! It was making pump bodies for the overdrive and involved five machines . I remember Brian being one of the setters and the other was rip -van Benson (always asleep on nights) and there was a guy called Harry Overtime for obvious reasons it was piece work and he was milking it he had charge hand at his beck and call .we worked night and days i dont remember many names but am sure some have been mentioned . I worked at Archer road for short time when George Goode was taken ill and course passed away.I didnt like Archer road the setters where a law unto themselves but the bacon sandwiches in the morning were great ..ended up back at Little London and took redudnancy.

Just a note to all that there is a Laycocks re-union on the evening of Thursday October 14th 2010, all ex-Lacycocks workers welcome wether you've been before or not. This year it will be held at the Laycocks Sports Club.

Well if it's workers only I don't think they'll let me in..:hihi:
Seriously though, thoroughly enjoyed the last one so I'll be there..:thumbsup:

Hi Grinder
I do seem to remember it was opened up last year to those that were interested and family so again you would be welcome, I suppose really I should not have put down workers because nobody would turn up :)

Hi Grinder
I do seem to remember it was opened up last year to those that were interested and family so again you would be welcome, I suppose really I should not have put down workers because nobody would turn up :)

Sorry Kev, my sense of humors always been appalling,
I was at Laycocks for 35 yrs, it's just that no one ever accused me of working .....:hihi:

Sirry Kev, my sense of humors always been appalling,
I was at Laycocks for 35 yrs, it's just that no one ever accused me of working .....:hihi:


hiya i was chatting to a bloke in morrisons the other day the only thing i recognised was the tallnnness and the way he walked, his hair was thinner but when he came towards me t said well if it int mr carlton it wasa 20 odd years since i last spoke to him it was jim carlton from archer rd, i mentioned seeing mick atkin a few weeks ago, but jim told me mick had passed away that really shocked me. jim was an apprentice when i started along with john styring, god hhow time passes, still see stuart hoyland the odd time, i remember he had a good head of reallly dark hair now its pure white all over.

It was a shame about Mick, he was a great bloke. I see Jim just about every day but John Styring has now retired (early). Jim still has a few years to go but is still as fit as a fiddle and still loves his fishing.

My Grandad worked at Laycocks for a long time, not sure when he started but he was there in the 2nd WW up until 1967 when he retired. He worked at Archer Rd , I think as a turner. Sadly he only had a couple of years of retirement before he died of a heart attack in 1970. His name was Ernest Atkin - does anyone remember him??

Was talking to Jackie Peat the other day on Woodseats Bottom, she was telling me that she went to Micks funeral and that it was the happiest one she'd ever been to..
Everyone had a funny story to tell and I can't think of a better way to be remembered
Wish I'd have been there ...

It was a shame about Mick, he was a great bloke. I see Jim just about every day but John Styring has now retired (early). Jim still has a few years to go but is still as fit as a fiddle and still loves his fishing.

Kevin

Do you have any contact info for John Styring. I think we may be related.

Email or PM me if you do

Thx

Kevin

Do you have any contact info for John Styring. I think we may be related.

Email or PM me if you do

Thx

No sorry I don't, if only I had known about 3 weeks ago as I could have told him at his leave party.

No sorry I don't, if only I had known about 3 weeks ago as I could have told him at his leave party.

K thx anyway

Hello all my dad used to work for GKN laycock untill they closed down and i found a photo which he took many years ago o know the quality isnt that great but i havent managed to find any other photos of laycock on archer road on the internet as yet.


http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r256/motorhead_dude/Photo0131.jpg

My Grandad worked at Laycocks for a long time, not sure when he started but he was there in the 2nd WW up until 1967 when he retired. He worked at Archer Rd , I think as a turner. Sadly he only had a couple of years of retirement before he died of a heart attack in 1970. His name was Ernest Atkin - does anyone remember him??

Hi,
The name sounds very familiar, The last dept. I worked in before I went into the Drawing office, in late 48 or early 49, was the center lathes, and I'm pretty sure I worked alongside Ernie during that time.
John Hatch.

Hello all my dad used to work for GKN laycock untill they closed down and i found a photo which he took many years ago o know the quality isnt that great but i havent managed to find any other photos of laycock on archer road on the internet as yet.


http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r256/motorhead_dude/Photo0131.jpg

Hard to imagine they knocked all that down to build a car park, init

Here are a few of the photo's I have of Laycocks, just a shame that these were the last ones ever taken of Laycocks http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m317/kevind63/Laycocks/

Here are a few of the photo's I have of Laycocks, just a shame that these were the last ones ever taken of Laycocks http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m317/kevind63/Laycocks/

Cheers Kev :thumbsup:
Just looking at the wash basin area, with the mistic bay along side it was great.
Even though the stores and the cutter grinders had gone I could still picture where I had worked for 28yrs before going down to Little London.

I will add to those photos when I get time, I have lots of scanned Laycocks mags which could make interesting reading for some.

Loads of Laycocks Mirrors for you to read on hear now.

http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m317/kevind63/Laycocks/

Hi Kevin63,

Did you used to work in Archer Road production control, by any chance?

I worked at Laycock's in the Cutter Grind Department from 1959 until about 1965. The boss was a guy named Maurice Rogers. He didn't smoke.drink or swear but never tried to impose his beliefs on anyone else. He was a pefect gentleman and an all round nice guy. Don't know whether he's still around or not.
There used to be two guys who worked in the stores, Lou and Ron. who both had one arm missing. They used to delight in getting us younger persons trapped between their stumps. You couldn't move too far when they did that. All in good fun then but would probably be frowned upon nowadays.

Some ways down the line.......
Ron Ward and Lou Dawes. Both spot on geezers - I worked with Lou for a while and he was a real gem of a bloke. I'm not sure about Ron but I know Lou has passed on.

Hi Kevin63,

Did you used to work in Archer Road production control, by any chance?

No I did my apprenticeship at Archer Road on the M/C shop floor then on to the Conamatics and finally ended up in the Method Engineers.

No I did my apprenticeship at Archer Road on the M/C shop floor then on to the Conamatics and finally ended up in the Method Engineers.

OK, thanks.

Great bunch of photos BTW. Brings back memories.

http://s556.photobucket.com/albums/ss10/bennyandtheblades/?action=view&current=Photobucket.jpg&newest=1

Any one remember any ot these guys .
Archer rd Cutter Grinders 1968?

http://s556.photobucket.com/albums/ss10/bennyandtheblades/?action=view&current=Photobucket.jpg&newest=1

Any one remember any ot these guys .
Archer rd Cutter Grinders 1963?

I think I remember the chap in the second photo. I cannot remember his name but I believe he was disabled and needed a couple of walking sticks to get around. A nice guy - very pleasant and always spoke.
C'mon someone and help me out with his name - was it Albert?

Anyone remember Dave Barber? He worked there in the 60's. Grinders I believe

Was the disabled guy you are on about called Harrold.

Was the disabled guy you are on about called Harrold.

Thanks Kevin63, indeed it was Harrold. I'll be able to sleep undisturbed tonight.

Thanks Kevin63, indeed it was Harrold. I'll be able to sleep undisturbed tonight.

My husband says that his name was Harold Ward and his son worked on the overdrive at Little London Rd.

My husband says that his name was Harold Ward and his son worked on the overdrive at Little London Rd.

Thanks Cynthia and greetings from the UK.

Please say hello to Hamilton from me the next time you pass through.

Sorry not got the hang of this yet, there was only supposed to be the one Photo. the 2ND photo is of Harold Broadhurst.
The first photo was taken by our Charge hand Maurice Rodgers in I think about 68 ?- George Marsh, Harold Broadhurst, Jack Simpson, Arthur Leah, George Milner..

I remember Stan Ellis and Charlie Brookfeild working in the cutter grinders but this would have been late 70s and in the 80s, this made a 2 min trip a 1hr stay.

Surprised Stan wasn't on that picture, must have been talking to you Kev....:hihi:
Charlie took over after Maurice retired..

Surprised Stan wasn't on that picture, must have been talking to you Kev....:hihi:
Charlie took over after Maurice retired..

I started in 1977 so only a baby compared to some.
Stan retired and then passed away about 3 days after doing so, I will always remember him.

Just before I went into the CG, Harry Fields worked till he was 70 had his presentation on the Friday and died on the Sunday...

Surprised Stan wasn't on that picture, must have been talking to you Kev....:hihi:
Charlie took over after Maurice retired..

hiya grinder
i had a look at your photograph was it 1963 , i started in 64, there were 5 in the photo i only remember 2 maybe 3 was one called george ? there was harold broadhurst and jack, later there was charlie brookfield and bert crookes.
p.s i worked at my previous firm with charlie brookfields brother
he was i remember a jack of all trades. and you joined me in your w.m club woodseats wmc. and was chatting to barrie webster the other week in morrisons m/h and he said he'd had a word with you.

Hi Willybite.
I started 7Th Oct 1957 and was made redundant Oct 8Th 1992 ..
Worked weeks about for 99.9% of that time, so half of it is just a haze..:huh:...:hihi:

My dad, Dave Kelsey, was a maintenance electrician & used to work at the Little London site from the late 60's - early 90's when he was made redundant. One of his stories that springs to mind is of a massive kiwi bloke who got his hand caught under a hydraulic hammer & flattened clean off! Apparently he went to the nurse & said something like, 'hey luv, have you got a plaster for this?' She fainted on the spot!

Think he still goes to the company reunions, but not really sure who he's still in touch with. It's such a shame that so much of this heritage is gone - either levelled or redeveloped. Doesn't seem right somehow that we now have a Sainsbury where so many people laboured in industry

Laycocks reunion will be held at Laycocks Sports Club, Archer Road on Thursday the 20th of October 2011, 7.30 onwards, ALL ex employees are very welcome, if interested, please ring Joe Winter on 0114 2745241

Just before I went into the CG, Harry Fields worked till he was 70 had his presentation on the Friday and died on the Sunday...

I gave him a ride home on Friday night. We also chipped in for a bouquet of flowers for his wife.
He died in his allotment whilst gardening.
We were all gobsmacked when Maurice gave us the news on Monday morning.
Sad time.

hi im new on ere and i just come across this thread and remembered my dad worked there DAVID BRATTON i just wondered any body new him he worked on little london rd not sure what department so my girlfriends dad worked there IAN CLARKE whocould anyone shed any light what happened to him cause he died when she was just 4 months old and would like to know what he was like.any replies would be gratefull cheerz.

Dont forget 2011 Laycocks reunion Laycocks Sports Club Archer rd 20th october open to everyone who ever worked there.

Dont forget 2011 Laycocks reunion Laycocks Sports Club Archer rd 20th october open to everyone who ever worked there.

Is there still a bus that goes past there ?

where was everybody for the laycock reunion at laycocks sports club last thursday only about fifty turned up

Is there still a bus that goes past there ?

hiya grinder just seen where horace theaker has passed on he was an inspector in the stores at the bottom of the drive at archer rd, he would have chats with me when he found out i had m/s as he had, he was 83 i think.

Just before I went into the CG, Harry Fields worked till he was 70 had his presentation on the Friday and died on the Sunday...

hiya grinder have just read the above letter i read the C.G as being the coldstream guards but after reading it again i came up with cutter grinders
i'm a daft bat.

I remember Harry Wragg worked in no 8 store on Camping lane

Hi willybite.
Coldstream guards !!!!
The wife says I'm as much use as a Chocolate fire guard but that's about as near as I ever got...
When ever people mention names and incident from back when I some times think I must have slept through most of my time at Laycocks.
Mind you on nights I probably did,but thinking back I remember a Fred Theaker who became a setter on the clutch, but I can't put a face to Horace.
Having said that over my time there there were so many faces, and such a big turn over of personal, plus the fact that in most cases you only knew people by there first name, and some of those where nick names.
I had every intention of going down to Laycock sports club the other night but fell asleep in the chair, must have thought I was on nights again.....:D

Hi willybite.
Coldstream guards !!!!
The wife says I'm as much use as a Chocolate fire guard but that's about as near as I ever got...
When ever people mention names and incident from back when I some times think I must have slept through most of my time at Laycocks.
Mind you on nights I probably did,but thinking back I remember a Fred Theaker who became a setter on the clutch, but I can't put a face to Horace.
Having said that over my time there there were so many faces, and such a big turn over of personal, plus the fact that in most cases you only knew people by there first name, and some of those where nick names.
I had every intention of going down to Laycock sports club the other night but fell asleep in the chair, must have thought I was on nights again.....:D

hiya grinder just read your letter above horace was freds brother and worked in the inspection room at the top side of the stores where they would check incoming stores, horace had a stiff walk in one of his legs due to his illness, but it didn't stop him riding his bike to and from work.

just been reading earlier posts about braithwaite the bookie of when he picks up the bets, anyhow he was waiting in the security guards office at the top of the drive one day when somebody asked him who he was he said i'm the bookie who are you and it was walt elliott or one of the other directors anyway that was the end of betting on shop floor,

just thinking it wasn't braithwaite it was ron grattage the bookie ,ray gillott's dad albert used to take the bets.

Hi Willybite.
Stiff leg and rode a push bike, that rings a bell (no pun intended).
I think I know who you mean now.
I remember him being knocked off his bike at the bottom of Fraser rd one time ...

I remember a guy in the early 50's that worked in the sheet metal shop (also the maintenance shop) which was next to the carpenters shop, he was a welder, have forgotten his name, he rode a bike to work and was involved in a traffic accident one morning cycling to work. - I believe he succumbed to his injuries never leaving the hospital alive, what was unique about this fellow he only worked about half the year (for many years) the rest of the time he ran a 'guess your weight' pitch at Skegness, he was quite a character and gave us all the patter he used to tell the customers.

My late husband did his apprenticeship and worked there from leaving school to 1971 when we emigrated to New Zealand. Remember going to some dances and on a illuminations outing to Blackpool. He was at the Archer Road area/branch.

When we left he was working in the forging department and his immediate boss was not that much older then him but cannot remember his name. I remember he told me he once got sent home because he was wearing a paisley tie!

At it's peak Laycock Eng. had a total work force of two to three thousand, working at four factories, two at Millhouses and two on Little London road..
(and they wonder why there aren't many job around now)
Add to this shift work which meant you very rarely mixed with the people on the opposite shift and you can see how you could easily work for years at the same Factory, at the same time as some one and only be on nodding terms....

Whillywhite GRINDER info for you Some time in the past the name of SAM MARSDEN came up and I know some of you remember him
I have to tell you Sam past away last weekend aged 92
Service at City Rd Mon 6/1/12 !0- 15

Sad news again I'm afraid.
Morris Starbuck has also past away, he worked as chargehand on the driven plate line at Archer Road.
Long may Sam and Morris RIP.

. . .

Sorry to hear about Sam and Morris I also hear Mick Drayton past away a short while ago.
I can remember Mick from way back in the days of the Saturday ROCK & ROLL nights at the Sports club in the Fifties..
Doesn't Time fly....

Sorry to hear about Sam and Morris I also hear Mick Drayton past away a short while ago.
I can remember Mick from way back in the days of the Saturday ROCK & ROLL nights at the Sports club in the Fifties..
Doesn't Time fly....

hiya i remembe sam also his brother charlie who worked in the hub shop,also maurice starbuck the setter, i met with him last year, or the year before at the hallamshire hospital, didn't recognise him until we got out of the ambulance it was when he was saying about his cars to the driver, when i saId hello maurice he then asked who i was as he could not see very good.

hiya i remembe sam also his brother charlie who worked in the hub shop,also maurice starbuck the setter, i met with him last year, or the year before at the hallamshire hospital, didn't recognise him until we got out of the amulance it was when he was saying about his cars to the driver, when i saId hello maurice he then asked who i was as he could not see very good.

Maurice lived just up the road from me and I always saw him standing outside at his gate, his eyes and legs were giving him problems. He still seemed to be the same bloke that I knew back in 78 when I went on the driven plate line though. I will always remember him as a great genuine bloke who loved his cars, I still see his son now and again.

I remember Maurice Rogers very well. Although very much older than me, he was a freind of my parents, growing up with them back in the 1920s when they all attended Cemetery Road Baptist Church. Maurice was a keen photographer and took the pictures for our wedding back in 1970. His wife died shortly after that and he died some years after but not sure just when. If he was still alive he would be approaching 100! He had, before working at Laycock's, been a tea taster for a Sheffield firm of tea importers whose name escapes me now. Very different from the engineering world!

Yes, he did live in Woodseats. Nice to hear such good things about him. He was 75 when he died.

Maurice lived in Millhouses on Pingle Avenue.

Maurice lived in Millhouses on Pingle Avenue.

Then he must have moved after his retirement.
Mr Rodgers was my foreman from 1964 up to his retirement, he lived on either Mitchell or Marshall road near the Woodseats Library back then ..

Then he must have moved after his retirement.
Mr Rodgers was my foreman from 1964 up to his retirement, he lived on either Mitchell or Marshall road near the Woodseats Library back then ..

Hi Grinder. Quite possible. I moved to Sheffield in 1968 (age 18) though and remember visiting him on Pingle with my parents then. It's the only place I knew he lived at but of course it could be that he'd only recently moved.
Lovely to see so many kind references to him. He was a really nice guy. He gave me a load of photo developing gear as as I was, and still am, also interested in photography.

Maurice lived just up the road from me and I always saw him standing outside at his gate, his eyes and legs were giving him problems. He still seemed to be the same bloke that I knew back in 78 when I went on the driven plate line though. I will always remember him as a great genuine bloke who loved his cars, I still see his son now and again.
that last time i saw maurice starbuck he told me his son andrew came to see him every day, we had a laugh though, i said the reason i didn't recognise him as he had more hair since i knew him at work, as it was long at the back, a really nice bloke,i remember him once telling me of someone saying hello to him and was he still driving his hill climbing car, and he said sorry i don't know you ,then when he was told he was a time keeper at the hill climbs it sank in with him.
kevin you worked on the plate line who did you work with, red barrel's shift or alf ecklid's and bob egginton

Whillywhite GRINDER info for you Some time in the past the name of SAM MARSDEN came up and I know some of you remember him
I have to tell you Sam past away last weekend aged 92
Service at City Rd Mon 6/1/12 !0- 15

hiya harmston i remember you, and sorry to hear of sam's passing.

i whent their in the 70s to by a overdrive unit for my mk3 spitfire........

that last time i saw maurice starbuck he told me his son andrew came to see him every day, we had a laugh though, i said the reason i didn't recognise him as he had more hair since i knew him at work, as it was long at the back, a really nice bloke,i remember him once telling me of someone saying hello to him and was he still driving his hill climbing car, and he said sorry i don't know you ,then when he was told he was a time keeper at the hill climbs it sank in with him.
kevin you worked on the plate line who did you work with, red barrel's shift or alf ecklid's and bob egginton

I don't remember those names. I had just done my first year apprenticeship and the driven plate line with Maurice was my first posting on the shop floor, that's about 33 years ago now, I think the foreman then was Reg Pogmore or Freddie Brooks but can't quite remember.
Maurice sold one of his race cars a few years ago but I think he still kept one of them which Andrew will have now along with a couple of other cars that Maurice collected.

I don't remember those names. I had just done my first year apprenticeship and the driven plate line with Maurice was my first posting on the shop floor, that's about 33 years ago now, I think the foreman then was Reg Pogmore or Freddie Brooks but can't quite remember.
Maurice sold one of his race cars a few years ago but I think he still kept one of them which Andrew will have now along with a couple of other cars that Maurice collected.

hiya you are right the foreman would have been either one, fred passed on some while ago, thats the trouble when you meet somebody from years agoithe first thing thats said is have you heard about so and so well he passed away.

sorry kevin i hadn't read your letter right that you were an apprentice with the first posting on the shop floor, never mind not remembering the names, you didn't miss much ha ha

At it's peak Laycock Eng. had a total work force of two to three thousand, working at four factories, two at Millhouses and two on Little London road..
(and they wonder why there aren't many job around now)
Add to this shift work which meant you very rarely mixed with the people on the opposite shift and you can see how you could easily work for years at the same Factory, at the same time as some one and only be on nodding terms....

hiya grinder j i remember one thet started in the clutch m/s many years ago his workmates he worked with said he'd come over from ireland, anyway one shift one of them passed word on that he was on the borrow. i said he won't come to me, i'll show you how to stop him i'll ask him if he's got owt to lend me so if he thinks i'm skint he won't come to me.

Hello Kieth, I wonder if you remember my Father , Bert Crookes ., pictured here on the right with one of his workmates I think (I don't know his name ). He worked in the cutter grinders until 1977.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y2/crookesmoorlad/DadatLaycocks-1.jpg

hiya ceedee, i have just looked at the photo of your dad bert and jack simpson, that was a very good snap, remember me telling you your dad and mine were in the same class when they were at school, and when he worked at toms hairdressers in charles st many years ago i reckon it was nearly 60 years ago now, i don't know what school it was mine went to st stephens,crooksmoor and western rd

ps when he worked at toms was it a kind of a fill- in job as i recall they had eight barbers at once when they were busy, one that worked at the time was a bernard pitts, his dad worked with my mum at viners,
pps they would have been 100 years old next month.

That's a very young Jack Simpson, I remember him in the cutter grinders, especially when I broke a cutting disc in there once and it hit Jack on the back of his head, I've still got the scars from that. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y2/crookesmoorlad/DadatLaycocks-1.jpg

Good looking lad though weren't he..:wave:.

Mind you looking at that hair no wonder Bert's laughing , It looks like you weren't the first one to hit him behind the head with a bit of Elastic wheel....:hihi: