Old Pwd

[St Petre 85]

Did the former PWD (Public Works Department) have a central HQ like the City  Engineers (SCCE) had on Olive Grove Road as well depots  around the city ?

 

Edited April 22, 2022 by St Petre
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[blackhill 10]

I worked at PWD 1970-74. As I remember the HQ was at Olive Grove Road. I worked in a team spraying Aerocem (or something like that) on the houses. I used to along with another chap (Barnie Grubb and a couple more men ) scaffolding and cleaning around the windows after the walls had been sprayed. If you worked within a distance from Olive Grove you didn't get travelling expenses. But over that limit you did. For a few months I was with a gang working round the manor. I lived in Hillsboro. at the time. So I didn't get any expenses.

[*Wallace* 333]

Didn’t Barnie Grubb end up as a fireman in Trumpton ?

[Magneteer 20]

The central depot was on Worthing Road until about 1978/9, when it transferred to Manor Lane.

I worked in the Heating section.

Edited April 23, 2022 by Magneteer

[Paul Worrall 4]

Hi Everybody,

 

Didn't the PWD have a department in the Prince of Wales Road/Pipworth School area during the 1960's?

 

I've a memory of seeing lorries in that area when I used to visit my Grandmother in Darnell.

 

Wazzie Worrall

[Kidorry 189]

Yes it was down the lane between the school and the cottages.

[St Petre 85]

3 hours ago, Paul Worrall said:

Hi Everybody,

 

Didn't the PWD have a department in the Prince of Wales Road/Pipworth School area during the 1960's?

 

I've a memory of seeing lorries in that area when I used to visit my Grandmother in Darnell.

 

Wazzie Worrall

I think that may have been a City Engineers depot, if the lorries were maroon coloured, PWD had grey ones.

[Magneteer 20]

PWD later to become SWD, had a few local depots dotted around the city ie. Greenhill, Crookes, Bramhall Lane( joiner's shop and transport) and a section based in the Polytechnic, Pond St.

[lazarus 68]

On 24/04/2022 at 12:03, Paul Worrall said:

Hi Everybody,

 

Didn't the PWD have a department in the Prince of Wales Road/Pipworth School area during the 1960's?

 

I've a memory of seeing lorries in that area when I used to visit my Grandmother in Darnell.

 

Wazzie Worrall

I remember the same depot but with horse and carts that were the norm for the street cleaners. This was in the late forties / early fifties.

Edited April 25, 2022 by lazarus

[briret 9]

I think there was a depot on Harborough avenue

[Long Ago 10]

Worked from the PWD depot at Moonshine Lane terminus opposite the library early 70s.  The head offices were situated at Fitzwilliam Gate near the bottom of the Moor. There was a pet shop nearby.

[lazarus 68]

On 26/04/2022 at 16:47, briret said:

I think there was a depot on Harborough avenue

That was more a repairs and rent office.