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Great photo of your Dad, Derek!!
Thank you one and all xxGreat photo of your Dad, Derek!!
I worked here from 1965 till 1969 in the meat assembly dept preparing the ingredients for sausages,mincing the meat adding the salts and seasoning. The main entrance was in Greenway St, but there were others one was behind the pub we used to call the Wrexham, where we spent many a dinner time. One of the perks was we always had hot pies from the bakehouse when we were peckish. I met some great people there we had some good times. Did anyone else work there?
I worked at Bywaters during the school summer holidays during 1969 and again in 1970 I wasn't quite 15 in 1969 which was the legal age to work at that time but I told them that I was and they set me on. Easy going times! I spent both summers pushing pig carcases from the slaughterhouse into the cold store as well as helping out in the cellar injecting brine into sides of pork. I went back to work there in 73/74 by which time it had been taken over by Roberts & Birch or Robirch as they were known. I worked in the cookhouse at that time operating a machine that pressed hams. I remember that there was no shortage of pubs in that area, including several on the Coventry Rd.
I remember that it was very logically laid out, with live pigs coming in at one end and a huge variety of pork products leaving despatch at the other end of the complex, with all the various production areas in separate sections dependent on product.Quite a few companies described their premises or products as 'model'. It seemed odd at the time, to me, but I eventually found out that it simply meant that it was something to be imitated or compared to favourably.
I also worked in Bywaters Greenaway St started August 1960I worked here from 1965 till 1969 in the meat assembly dept preparing the ingredients for sausages,mincing the meat adding the salts and seasoning. The main entrance was in Greenway St, but there were others one was behind the pub we used to call the Wrexham, where we spent many a dinner time. One of the perks was we always had hot pies from the bakehouse when we were peckish. I met some great people there we had some good times. Did anyone else work there?
Just looking at the pie on the bag makes my mouth water! A large slice of that and a pint (maybe two) would be wonderful about now!Bywaters paper bags. According to the bags, Bywaters had a model factory in Small Heath. Viv
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Ah yes! The 29 bus and #5 tram were my most used transportation, and we have a cheese cutter that uses wire that seems to be a magnet for grandchildren!Even though mum worked for Bywaters I don’t remember ever having one of their pork pies, probably because I wasn’t a big fan of pork pie. Mum must have brought them home because she loved pork pie. She especially liked them just a little warm. And we had plenty of cheese from the shop - remember her cutting it with a wire. I also remember her slicing ham on the slicing machine, lovely stuff. I’m pretty certain the Bywaters shop she worked at was the next shop along to Kirtons newsagents in this photo ( ie to the right of Kirtons). The #29 bus is travelling along Kingstanding Road. I remember a sense of being high up when you looked out of the shop window across to Hawthorn Road whereas the shops further to the right are lower down. Viv.
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