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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 years). I worked in Export Sales under Chris Bird & Frank Round, both no longer with us, with George Pilawski, Graham Jenks, Hector Morris & Gary Adcock. Had four great years and still think the best years of my working career, after Cannings I worked at former subsidiary Pollution Control in Telford in their fledgling plating company Plating Engineering. After that went to ESP Ltd in Newtown Row, staffed by former Cannings stalwarts Ken Reid, Gordon Wilde, Ken Hackett, Harry Eacock, Hazel Bevan, Phil Gardner, John Hewitt and in the workshop lead burners Norman Priddle & Larry Mulaney and legendary sparky Roy Sheppard. In 1990 joined one of Canning's larger suppliers Ketville Ltd specialising in plating plant extraction systems spent 14 years there coming across many Canning installed plating lines. Came out of "the trade" in 2004 and have just retired from the Blood Service after nearly twenty years. Have great memories of loads of characters from my time at Cannings largely in the sales force Reg Bleakman, Norman Thurston, Brian Harvey, Alan Vernon, Ken Rook, Garvey Humphrey, Ken Petitt, Graham Ford, Ricky Holford-Jones, Arturo Volpe, the latter three from Polishing, and who could forget the irascible Jack Cooke from I&M.
Do you still wear that earing that Frank told you not to ?

:)
 
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