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    Canning & Co & Electroplating

    So who was your father?
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    Canning & Co & Electroplating

    Bill how you doing? Left Ketville in 2004 then did 19 years in the Blood Service and retired last June. You still in touch with any of the PC crowd? Martyn
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    Canning & Co & Electroplating

    Who are you btw? Can’t be many of us left?
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    Canning & Co & Electroplating

    Well remembered I did for years & years taking it out only for rugby on a Saturday, still pop a stud in every now and again lol.
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    Canning & Co & Electroplating

    Morning all, I worked at W.Canning Engineering aged 16 from 1979-1983 when we went bust, being only twenty was one of the last to be made redundant not long after we had moved into the new purpose built premises in Pitsford Street (a building which itself has been demolished in the last few...
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    Canning & Co & Electroplating

    And then you ended up with me at Pollution Control/Plating Engineering Norm in 84/86 lol Martyn Cartwright.
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    Canning & Co & Electroplating

    I remember Roy Shep, top bloke, new him at Cannings originally 79-83 then at one of the various offshoot companies ESP Ltd in 86-90. Lived near the Baldwin Pub in Hall Green. Largely self taught sparky could turn his hand to most anything within the workshop at ESP remember him building a spot...
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    Birmingham Fire Stations

    Good morning, I've just stumbled across a post regarding FM Alan Carr, I was a Brigade child, with both mom & dad in the job, I remember Alan, from memory they believe he fell asleep after riding home from the continent either Spain or France. I grew up in the Brigade maisonettes on Woodcock...
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