Castle Bromwich Spitfire Factory

[Richard Dye]

View attachment 182713This was my nans works ID card for AVRO (Spitfire at Castle Bromwich) she worked their during the war and had many stories to tell incluing the lunch time dance bands and seeing the plans pushed across the road so they could reach the runway. Previous to Spitfire she had worked at Buttons - sewing the fine buttons for dress uniforms. We lost Marian Wagg in June this year less than 2 months before her 99th birthday she was a proud brummie and we were equally proud of her

We all should be proud of her!

Welcome to The Forum Julie, enjoy!

 

[Astoness]

sorry for your recent loss julie but what a lovely keeps sake you have there...and a bonus to have a lovely photo of your nan...thank you for sharing it with us all

lyn

 

[Covroad]

Attached is a picture showing King George and the Queen visiting Lucas in Birmingham where production works on the Spitfire were undertaken.
Source Lucas at War a commemorative book printed for the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Britain

 

[Vivienne14]

Memories of an inspector at the factory during WW2.

 

[LisaAndAnt]

Are there any archives of employees ? And what they assembled? We discovered today that my partners grandmother was an “ aircraft assembler” at BSA on the Lancaster bomber she lived in small Heath / Sheldon, is there a database of archived info anywhere? She was Mary Ann Coley nee Clarke

 

[mw0njm.]

Secret haul of Spitfire parts 'buried in Castle Vale'

Spitfire parts are said to lie beneath the soil at an unidentified location in the Castle Vale area.

www.birminghammail.co.uk

 

[Donbogen]

Secret haul of Spitfire parts 'buried in Castle Vale'

Spitfire parts are said to lie beneath the soil at an unidentified location in the Castle Vale area.

www.birminghammail.co.uk

yes there was so much stuff i know the tatters were there all the time asking us what we found some parts we found were caked in grease and still wrapped

 

[Richard Dye]

yes there was so much stuff i know the tatters were there all the time asking us what we found some parts we found were caked in grease and still wrapped

If the grease were a Cosmolene type of material the parts could still be good. I think that RR developed a similar protective grease for ocean freight.

 

[Vivienne14]

Some memories of two employees during WW2.



Source: British Newspaper Archive

 

[John L]

We owe them so much:

 

[Donbogen]

We owe them so much:

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MK 1X Spits
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Good match against Jerry FW 190s/Butcher Bird