During the 1970s I worked at the Triplex Safety Glass Kings Norton and was a member of the works volunteer fire service.
On Sunday mornings I would attend training sessions at the Morris Commercial factory at ward end.
At the end of 8 weeks we would sit an exam and await our results , once the results came out we would attend a prize giving night at the Ward end factory where all the Fire chiefs and other ranks of the Birmingham And District Industrial Fire Brigades Association would assemble for sandwiches and a few cans of Ind coope .
During the night trophies would be handed out for coming well placed in the exams , the one year I was presented with the Butler trophy( a chrome plated fire branch(hose nozzle) on a wooden base).
This was kept at the Triplex in the gatehouse.
After leaving the Triplex a few years later about 1995 to 2000 returned to to repair some equipment in the canteen , on entering the gatehouse I noticed this trophy along with all the others for competitions ie cups , plates and badges were on display, this was their resting place after the B A D I F B assc was disbanded .
So my plea is does anybody know what happened to these trophies after they left the Triplex , they are all bits of Birmingham history with their names of individuals and factory fire brigades , shame for them to lie lost and forgotten like so much of our past is today.
On Sunday mornings I would attend training sessions at the Morris Commercial factory at ward end.
At the end of 8 weeks we would sit an exam and await our results , once the results came out we would attend a prize giving night at the Ward end factory where all the Fire chiefs and other ranks of the Birmingham And District Industrial Fire Brigades Association would assemble for sandwiches and a few cans of Ind coope .
During the night trophies would be handed out for coming well placed in the exams , the one year I was presented with the Butler trophy( a chrome plated fire branch(hose nozzle) on a wooden base).
This was kept at the Triplex in the gatehouse.
After leaving the Triplex a few years later about 1995 to 2000 returned to to repair some equipment in the canteen , on entering the gatehouse I noticed this trophy along with all the others for competitions ie cups , plates and badges were on display, this was their resting place after the B A D I F B assc was disbanded .
So my plea is does anybody know what happened to these trophies after they left the Triplex , they are all bits of Birmingham history with their names of individuals and factory fire brigades , shame for them to lie lost and forgotten like so much of our past is today.
