Jobs we used to do

[alana124]

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER TESTER AND SWAIN IN PRICHARD STREET ASTON
USED TO MAKE SPRAYERS AND THINGS MY MOM AND HER SISTERS USED TO WORK ON THE POWER PRESS

 

[alana124]

what about midland counties dairy
do you remember the ice cream

 

[barrie]

How about Abbotts of Lozells, the furniture shop in Lozells Road?

 

[alan thomas]

Helo Barrie, My late wife worked at Abbottsin 1952 the owners name was Mr Sheasby she was 15,her name was Marjorie Holt​

 

[Alf]

what about midland counties dairy
do you remember the ice cream

alana have a look here you can find most things in the SEARCH BOX at the top of the page

https://forum.birminghamhistory.co.uk/showthread.php?t=21466&highlight=Midland+Counties+Dairies

 

[G G Jean]

Thanks for that Alf it is a good thread. Jean.

 

[barrie]

Helo Barrie, My late wife worked at Abbottsin 1952 the owners name was Mr Sheasby she was 15,her name was Marjorie Holt​

Hello Alan, I was working there at that time, your wife must have been in the accounts office. I was a junior salesman, I worked there from 1950 to 1954 when I left to go and do my National Service.

 

[harley]

i used to work on a hand press making all sorts of hinges for doors etc, i will never forget the factory inside, when i was shown to my bench as a young girl i was 16yrs .id never seen such an old factory it was like sommat out of a dickens film, there was boards on the floorwhich you could see through and creaked , a lift like really old to take you up to the next floor, tiny windows were ancient,no canteen,all squashed into small rooms weird building inside , this was in newtown in 1973.very victorian .and all the machinery too.does anyone remember a factory made hinges of all shapes and sizes ,down from the hippodrome behind a park ,or waste ground.

 

[Mossy]

Harley there were a lot of places like that especially in the jewelry quarter

Mossy

 

[harley]

yes thats right i have seen them on here in pictures, it was creepy to me years ago that factory,ha ha .

 

[lerryngal]

I've worked in a lot of factories in my time.
I worked at Kings Norton Stopper and components, on Kings Norton factory centre, in the early 1970's
I believe we made components for cars. I loved the big power presses, but once knocked myself out on a hand press. I swung the handle hard, expecting it to be stiff, but it was very loose, and swung all the way round, and the big ball weight knocked me clean out.
I aint been right since!!