Recent content by Josephine Chapman

I’m just glad you’re checking out the page now and will see the kitchen photos, which when I found them I immediately thought of you.

Yes that’s right. We had this chat a while back. Have you seen all the photos of the kitchens I have posted in the Kynochs 1930s and 1940s thread?

Here is another event that my grandmother (Elsie May Chapman) catered.

More photos mainly of kitchen and dining room staff I think. I am unsure of the date of these.

Rolling Mill staff celebrating an event judging by the tankards they all hold. Does anyone know what they might have been commemorating?

Photographs of my grandfather Leslie Harold Chapman’s retirement. He worked in the rolling mill.

Retirement photos for my gran, Elsie May Chapman. (Nee Price). My grandfather Les Harold Chapman (who also worked at Kynochs) is stood behind her. She is second right, front row in the second photo and in the centre front row of the first photo)

I’ve also added a couple of bits under the 1950s Kynochs thread.

My Grandmother Elsie May Chapman, known as May, attended cookery instruction while at Kynochs.

My Grandmother Elsie May Chapman was a cook for the Executive Dining room at Kynochs and as such was called upon to cater for special events. Here is the table plan for one dinner she prepared.

Fair enough. Sorry if I got the wrong end of the stick. All good.

The reason they are here is due to a contact made on this thread to a lady who lived near my father’s family. The pictures were relevant to that conversation. I’m more than happy to share on the other thread. Thanks for the link.

Here is a collection of wartime photos taken at Kynochs. Elsie May Chapman, my Grandmother, was a cook for the Executive Dining Room there. The photos I have found are of her at work; of the kitchen, the canteen and of an event in the grounds of the factory. There’s also clearly a competition...

Are you any relation of Annie Rogers who worked Pat Collins’ fair, she was a dancer and married Alf Farmer in 1930.

Did you check out the retirement photos I posted? https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/attachments/7f902025-b8c9-4893-b5b4-c10006701218-jpeg.160200/