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Mick, fancy hearing from you after all these years. I was going to ask if you were still a Motorhead fan, but i think they've all passed away. Wasn't your girlfriend at the time called Hazel? The names just keep coming back, it was if anything a good laugh with some of the characters, but...

Mick, Did you start with Errol in the Electricians Dept.?

Too long ago for me to remember i'm afraid.

My Dad retired from PSF in '77.

Keep them coming gents,great to hear the gritty end of the cars history.PA739,i know what you mean about the rear end.The SD1 club is currently in negotiation regarding Nivomats being re-manufactured.

A book came out a few years ago by Karen Pinder if i remember correctly,got a copy somewhere,that was about the history of the SD1. What we want now,is a first hand experience of the blokes who built them.Opinions from them on why they had the problems they did,i'm sure it would be...

Put me down for a copy.Looks like someone has done one from Longbridge.https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Living-in-a-Plant-by-David-Caffrey/164213392732?hash=item263be1855c:g:u84AAOSwikdexwP1

Behind the windmill pub and can just make out the old Metcast chimney.

I may be wrong but is that fire on the old Barker and Allen site?

You've got me there,i can't remember the roll change lads,was there about four of them? Trying to remember names from Metcast and the foundry,Pete Etheridge,Dennis Pugh,Arthur Williamson,Fred Layton.I remember Bob Stephenson was over there with another fitter Ray ??

When you look back over say,the last 50 years,you wouldn't believe the industry that has disappeared.The thousands of jobs,surely McDonalds hasn't been able to absorb them all.

That clock could have easily been saved Lyn,it was a simple piece of kit fitted into the panel.It had a box structure on the inside on hinges,we used to swing it back to replace the lamps (3 x 60w)when any of them needed changing,and of course adjusting the time (mainly when the clocks changed)...

Gordon Mann was another,i can picture the fourth,but i'm not remembering the name.

That's the Frohling mill if memory serves me right.I can't recognise the two operators from the photo,but I remember two of them at least,Paddy Higgins and Kenny Barratt.I can't think who else at the moment,but there was two more as the mill worked 6-2 and 2-10. Thanks very much for the photo,i...

Fred ? (oiler and greaser) I remember Joe well,i used to take meter readings in the garage sub-station twice a day,always stopped for a chat.He couldn't have been far off retirement when he died.Was Eric Balham in the garage at the time when you were? Do you remember the constant redundancy...

I'm in Newton Abbot now,just down the road from Torquay. The cranefitter was Bob Evans.Bob was part of the project team previously with Trevor Davies,Les Garvey and the bloke who was the oiler/greaser whose name i can't remember. Do you remember one of the blokes on the Tandem mill was the dad...

A few i'd forgotten about there.Trying to think who Pat the pipe fitter was.One of them was Jerry Maughan.A story went round that he'd spent the whole lunch break in the car park topping up his engine oil.When someone passing asked if he was having problems they noticed he'd tried to top it up...

Richard,when were you at B&A?

That's right,used to play for Good Hope hospital.I think they were struggling to fill the coach for Rhyl and that's how I ended up going.We all went for an Indian on the Saturday night if you remember. Funny how you remember things from all those years ago,and struggle to remember stuff from...

Hi Richard,They certainly are.I remember dropping a fork lift truck battery plate on my foot and Trevor Davies from the garage carried me piggy-back through that surgery door,then hobbling over to Dudley Rd hospital.