The vanished Engineering firms..

[grinder]

Over the last 30 odd years I've heard a lot about pit closures and how it destroyed whole communities and a way of life.

The railways was another and the steel works, but nobody seems to have noticed the demise of another great self contained community, the big engineering firms.

For thousands of Sheffield folk working in an Engineering factory wasn't just the way they earned a crust, they were communities with sports clubs, fishing clubs football teams just like the mines.

Now most of the big Engineering firms and their communities have slid silently into history, But there must still be a lot of memories out there, a lot of funny stories ........

So what's your favorite one ?

[Billy Casper]

My Dad worked for an engineering firm for most of his life, like you say, they had their own football team, snooker team, etc.

He retired in 2003, unfortunately the firm closed in 2005.

He worked at Brass Founders on Scotland Street.

[wednesday1]

Hey, you'll soon have all the out of town Tories on in a minute telling us how much more engineering, Sheffield does than now than 30 years ago!!!

[rabitter]

i worked for a firm on attercliffe rd and it did indeed have a social life after work

we had a fishing club,darts team in the works league,snooker team,dinner dances,and a good booze up at xmas.had many good friends there

sadly it was bought out and redundancies followed,but many happy memories.

[xenia]

Hey, you'll soon have all the out of town Tories on in a minute telling us how much more engineering, Sheffield does than now than 30 years ago!!!

 

Yes and this one who will tell you how the unions destroyed the engineering industry by ceaselessly demanding more money, thereby making products too expensive and forcing production abroad.

[shphotos]

rabitter - can i ask which company this was?

[rabitter]

shphotos

the firm was spartan,s

[shphotos]

ok thank you.

[Kidorry]

At Sandersons Bros & Newbold we had a sports club with fishing,football and we also had a car club where you could buy discount motor spares.We also had the Christmas dinner and dance and the fishing club presentation nights,they were great.

[ukdobby]

When I was apprentice used to walk along Carlise st after work and all the biggie were thriving,Sanderson,FBT and Cyclops works which are sadly no more now,all had sports clubs and footy teams,we had a great one at Ecclesfield.