Handsworth Rehabilitation Centre (Skills Centre) Manpower Services Com

Just wondering if anyone remembered Bill Peatfield who used to work as an instructor at the Rehabilitation Centre at Handsworth. Bill sadly died recently and we were trying to trace people who knew him. As a boy he went to Central Tech until 1946. He then did his apprenticeship at Davy United followed by National Service in Malaya. He worked at several firms including Firth Browns before moving to the Rehabilitation Centre.

Just wondering if anyone remembered Bill Peatfield who used to work as an instructor at the Rehabilitation Centre at Handsworth. Bill sadly died recently and we were trying to trace people who knew him. As a boy he went to Central Tech until 1946. He then did his apprenticeship at Davy United followed by National Service in Malaya. He worked at several firms including Firth Browns before moving to the Rehabilitation Centre.

The rehabilitation centre was the artificial limb centre and was only a small part of the Handsworth site think it was part of then DHSS.

Also on the site was Remploy cardboard factory

The rest being the training centre run by the dept of employment for unemployed to change careers. As you say he was an instructor he probably worked for the employment training centre rather than the artificial limb centre.

The dept of employment did late become Manpower services, although I worked there on maintenance for a number of years and remember some of the names of instructors sorry do not remember the guy you asked about.

Hope this helps though