There Must Be Someone Left!

[CF8M]

I am sure that I've asked this before over the years.  I worked at Edgar Allens in Sheffield from 1965 to 1979.

I started in the Chemi lab and soon transferred to the  Melting Shop.

This was a whole new world and the furnace crews were the best mates of all time more like family.

I started as a shift chemist , then to shift super and finished as  assistant manager to Ray Wrigley.

Unfortunately Ray's son Stephen was killed in a Motor accident and Ray lost all interest in the job and it fell to me to take over.

But the point of this I am trying to find out what became of all the mates  in the Melt shop and foundry.
Whilst I realise some have died over the years, but what about the one still going?

Please try and respond!

For old times sake!

[Alun Roberts]

Hello cf8m. That name rings a bell, it seems l have a similar background to yours.

I also started as a lab assistant at the Samuel Osborn factory near Killamarsh. 

Osborn Precision Castings.

At the time when electronic analysis was taking over from wet analysis, l too moved into the foundry and eventually became melting shop manager, but to be honest, man management wasn't my best ability .

I seem to recall 2 names with connections to Edgar's, my late brother in law Doug Hewitt, who was a patternmaker there before going independent, and Thom Marsden , also a pattern maker, who was our first works manager. 

Be nice if either of those were known to you. 

If you wanted to enquire further, you could text or ring on 07592808019.

Alun Roberts, now living in Dronfield.

 

 

[RJRB]

@Alun Roberts

Did that become HPC and part of Wm Cooks empire?

 

[Alun Roberts]

Hello, it did indeed. I was there for 44 years through 3 changes of ownership.

Firstly to Osborn Had fields, then by the Weir group in Scotland, then by William Cooks in 1986. I think.

[Arthur Ritus]

Just before your time?

 

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[Bluestj17]

I worked at EA for around 10 years before it closed. At the End I worked for Phil Lievesly in the Lad non destructive testing X-ray.  With Lewis Wigley, Richard Nightingale very good friends withese guys also played football and cricket together, Graham Reeves Ray Shackleton, Jeff Swannock, Mike Westoby, a lad called Stephen (not me the other one) Charles Elliot was boss of the lab when I started in his big wood walked office. I remember John Redwood, Ray Wrigley (his son dying). I started as a labourer in the casting shop. Worked with the lad who was a bit slow Paul/Peter? Then with the the inspectors a lovely couple of old guys one a Scot (his wife was called Bobby) and the other had longish grey curly hair. I used play Sunday football with some brothers that worked there mostly maintenance shop and sadly can't remember their names from the Horshoe pub up near Concord Park.

I remember a few others mentioned in other pages on this forum. 

Occasionally went in melting shop, or had pint down or 2 in the old pubs once a melt was on.

Happy days.