Wigfalls old staff

[GRAHAM F 10]

You are right bazza63 regarding Leo,s wife she was at Bellhouse Road but Leo was definitely the manager at Middlewood Rd when i worked there, G Burrell was the area manager at the time.

[Robbiet 10]

My brother in law Malcolm Jackson worked as a hoover engineer for many years

[bazza63 12]

Vaguely remember the name were in Sheffield area did he work.

 

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Does your in law remember Jim Barber.

[bill daubney 10]

Thanks athy

Apparently I cannot private message until I have made five posts which this is. That done I can and will message in private. Thanks to all for your help.

[mike-s 13]

Chris Kroukamp, big South African guy. Not sure which branch he worked at but following Wiggys he went to Walsh's. Also David Annat, lives at Hartington.

[bazza63 12]

Chris worked at Middlewood Rd branch/

[GRAHAM F 10]

Ted Crabtree, i think he was in charge of the reconditioned tv department at Walker street

[Jai 0]

On 11/01/2017 at 21:25, jackanne said:

David and barry martin,tv engineers sheffield.

Barry was my Dad ! Gone but not forgotten !!

[Cody's Granddad 52]

I've never worked at Wiggys but around 1978 I was a postman and delivered to Henry Wigfalls house in Carsick Hill Lane in Fulwood.

He was getting on a bit then and he used to have a chat outside his house as he would walk down the staircase which led up to his front door to save my legs.

[mike-s 13]

Anyone remember a Mrs Needham at Middlewood rd?

[wearysmith 141]

I spent a couple of years in the mid-70s working at the Transport Department on Harvest Lane, just up from Mowbray St in Sheffield. Was a junior office clerk. The office was over the garage where mechanics repaired and serviced the company's vehicles. I remember a regular influx of Bedford H.A and C.F vans and Hillman Avenger Estates. One of the directors (Robert Morrell?) had a pink Porsche.

The manager while I was there was a chap called Harry Berry. Interesting man. He and his wife used to go on the cruise ship Canberra regularly.

 

Some of the great, friendly, mechanics I recall are Barrie Cotton, Ted Witham and Barry Davenport and there was a marvellous fella in the same dept as me, Barry Ward, that got me in to Led Zeppelin - for which I will be forever grateful 😀. 

 

I jumped ship and went to Bentley Bros for a quid an hour more 😀.  

[St Petre 85]

Were Wigfall's HQ in the Rutland Road area or near the Wicker or Neepsend, Not to be cunfused with Wigfulls Flour mill which was in the lower Brunswick Road area.