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Any info on Earl and Burns factory, Birmingham

Can't find an Earl & Burns, but did find :

1956 Earle, Bourne & Co. Ltd. (a member of The Delta Group), Birmingham Rolling & Tube mills, Heath street south 18. T A " Tubing, Birmingham " ; Edgbaston 2141 (5 lines
1964-7 Earle Bourne & Co. Ltd. copper tube mkrs. Delta works,Dartmouth st 7. Aston Cross 3671
1969 not mentioned
I think the factory in Heath st was mentioned in another thread, but am not sure exactly which
mike

 
Thank you so much, much appreciated. I recall going to Christmas party with this company as a child, but never quite sure where it was or the proper name, once again many thanks for your time.
 
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times]Earle Bourne & Co, Hopper St., Spring Hill, Birmingham, then Heath Street South, Birmingham 18. Initially started to make tubes, bedstead fittings and drawn wires, late 19th century. Later, they specialised in semi- finished products including special tubes, strip and sections. The partnership of John Earl and George Bourne started in 1874 but from 1896 it was run by the Earle family. From 1922 the board was expanded. They were taken over by Delta Metal Co. With thanks to oldcopper.org website[/FONT]View attachment 43916
 
Some Co Workers were Jack Oreton (Baldy Jack), Barney Mc Gibbon and Wally Jakeman. Birmingham Arms Pub was the local pub there.
Baldy Jack was a renowned joker and prankster by all accounts


Apparantly at the back of EB was a casting shop where a worker was killed during an air raid in WW2, all they found was a full cup of fresh tea nearby which he must have just finished making.
 
I understand my father worked with an uncle of Pat Roach here who was nicknamed 'Big Daddy', he worked during the week and had a secondhand shop business at the weekend or suchlike, he also did some bouncer work. I believe he worked for the Delta also.
 
My grandfather started work at Earle Bourne in 1902 and was presented with a watch in 1952 to commemorate his fifty years service. He passed the watch to me as I was the only grandson who would carry his name, " Lawton" forward. It was a Smith's make and it is in front of me now, it still works and keeps good time if I remember to wind it up.
 
HI KEVKONK
Yes thanks for telling us i knew it ws spring hill some where in the past years
as i was growing up it had been mentioned before ,or at least some-one
requesting info ; on he family on this forum ;
and for the love or money ; i just could not place them ;
i knew in my heart and soul they was around spring hill one time
and also just up the spring hill passage spring hill was prices the cutlery makers
but when you came up spring hill passage there was stour street
and the next rd up was spring field st ; and along springfield street there was the doves and the adams and copes ; then there was a earl family living there on spring field rd they was a bit of a middle class family
and they kept them selves to there selves in the forties and fifties then they moved
best wishes astonion ;;
 
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