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hi there heeleyson

 

did your gran mention the sing a longs we had in the afternoon ,one joan

widdison would start singing then others would join in , my name back

then was ann thompson ,when i first started working there i used to do

the saturday morning shift with your gran and olga sellars .

did you gran ever mention annie martin to you , she was a character

the only one i knew that could use the f word to a foreman and get away

with it , wish i could turn the clock back to those days sometimes

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hi there heeleyson

 

did your gran mention the sing a longs we had in the afternoon ,one joan

widdison would start singing then others would join in , my name back

then was ann thompson ,when i first started working there i used to do

the saturday morning shift with your gran and olga sellars .

did you gran ever mention annie martin to you , she was a character

the only one i knew that could use the f word to a foreman and get away

with it , wish i could turn the clock back to those days sometimes

 

She used to talk about all sorts of stories and people, the names i just cant remember. But i know she had a lot of time for the majority of the workforce. Unfortunately i cant ask her anymore as she passed away in 2007.

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Grammatically sound better.

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heeleyson

i was sorry to hear about your gran passing away ,

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Hello,

I'm working on a small project and would like to contact any of the apprentices who started work in August 1977.

 

The list from my memory is

Gary Peacock (me)

Steve cawdwell (big time sufc fan, mum worked there)

Les Cooper (big time swfc fan, lived in Ecclesfield)

Ian hutchinson

Chris Cotten

Glynn Outram (moved to South Africa)

Mark Brewitt (dad also worked there)

Mike? (dad also worked there)

Richard?

+ 1 who left early, I think it was Phil?

 

If you have any info on the above people, please get in touch by pm, or just post on here.

 

Many thanks

Gary Peacock.

 

All, thanks for the replies on this. I have contacts for most of the above but am still after contacts for. Richard Clarke, Alan Hutchinson, Mark Brewitt and Mike? - Stanley apprentices who started in 1977. I had a small piece in the 'retro' section of the Star a couple of weeks ago, but only had 2 replies from that. That can mean one of two things, no one is still around from Stanley Tools in that era, or no one reads the Star. I'm trying to put a book together on what the lads did with their lives, did they stay in engineering and the general malaise in British manufacturing since those times.

 

Many thanks

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My dad used to work there joe caveney at ecclesfield site and my brother in law roger cook does anyone them

 

my dad working in the drawing office in the 60's. He was Albert Edward Oliver

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Hello,

I'm working on a small project and would like to contact any of the apprentices who started work in August 1977.

 

The list from my memory is

Gary Peacock (me)

Steve cawdwell (big time sufc fan, mum worked there)

Les Cooper (big time swfc fan, lived in Ecclesfield)

Ian hutchinson

Chris Cotten

Glynn Outram (moved to South Africa)

Mark Brewitt (dad also worked there)

Mike? (dad also worked there)

Richard?

+ 1 who left early, I think it was Phil?

 

If you have any info on the above people, please get in touch by pm, or just post on here.

 

Many thanks

Gary Peacock.

 

Gary - At my last recall Les Cooper was still working at Gripple

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I didn't work for Stanley but I have used Stanley tools, since 1962, when my father gave a Stanley plane when I started my carpentry and joinery apprenticeship.

I have acquired a number of stanley planes and I have recently been trying to date them.

I have asked Stanley for any information but I have not received a reply.

I was wondering if anybody had any information on Stanley Planes or if anybody has any old catalogue which I could buy or photocopies would be fine.

thanks

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hi i use a old stanley plane the other day . they were good back then . better than the planes you get now . ta jeff

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Hi Jeff

I think you get a better finish with the old planes. Stanley made hundreds of different types. If you wanted a collection of them it would cost a fortune. You can pay £1000 for a Stanley No 1 (a tiny smoothing plane)

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does anyone remember my dad who used to work at Stanley tool in the 1960's. He worked in the offices as a designer. Long time ago now but know that he had friends like George Fridlington and Geoff Jackson. He lived at Darfield until his death in 1998.

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Hi Alan,

 

Will reply to you once I have overcome Forum security !!!

Rich

 

---------- Post added 01-12-2015 at 19:45 ----------

 

Hi Alan Oliver - recall your Dad Albert - but sadly only from his Product Design colleagues that he left behind at STANLEY when he left (to work for a Hot Water Bottle manuf. co. in Barnsley ?) - and from his many Product Drgs. bearing his signature. Rich.

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My dad was Chief Engineer in the early sixties. His name was Laurie Ford and he unfortunately died in his forties in 1964

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