I remember Ron Hale very well. Gren Picken was an outstandingly funny man ( he wasn't alone!) and worked in 21 shop on the old manual phosphate line with John Stamp(s). He was a great man for a curry, on twilight shift he insisted on mega quantities of curry sauce on his bought in meal. I met John several times after my time at Ionic in other metal finishing plants and looked on both of them as friends.
In Palmjit's picture I sort of recognise
George Harris, not
Gordon; he looks bit slimmer though. Perhaps my memory is failing again.
Jim, it was indeed Tom Watson in the stores; the elderly chap that I recall was named Joe; I say "elderly" but he would have been a deal younger than we are now. The stores foreman I best remember was Roy Marigold, tallish sandy haired fellow who drove a VW Beetle, nice guy. Roy came along after the stores were broken into and a quantity of nickel metal was pinched; there followed a period of ill feeling and innuendo I found very distasteful.
When I knew 7 shop it was a small order specialist barrel line, the operator was another Ernie?
You must have known and worked with Larry Smith; he was another one with a droll sense of humour, very likeable.