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Chad Valley Toy Company Ltd, Harborne

Hi, iv tried to see the pictures but its just a red X ggrr anyone any ideas how i will be able to see these pictures of the chad valley factory and railway station???pleaseeeeeeeee
 
Here's the factory i worked here for a while
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christy said:
lefthooker, how are you, i spoke to phil on the forum, he said there was a toy company making toys in angelina st,[ highgate,b,ham12,] OSKY METALS TOYS,. HALL & LANE,leopold st made metal boxes, did they branch out & make toys?. i will let you know soon when dot gets back to me who worked at this factory in [leopold st or dymoke] st o,k all the best,....take care...christy.
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The company was Hall and Lane in Dymoke street. In 1964 I was going out with a girl who worked there and she lived in St.Martins Flats.I also had a friend who worked there as a printer.They manufactured metal pressings there, the most notable one was the globe of the world.Each half was printed in the flat and then went to a double action press to form each half.Sounds easy but it was fairly precision stuff,more skills this city now lacks.
 
Wendy said:
Elizabeth thats a lovely photo of the Chad Valley factory.
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Hello Wendy i lived two minutes walk away, so i could get up half an hour before work started and have plenty of time.
 
pam m said:
Hi, iv tried to see the pictures but its just a red X ggrr anyone any ideas how i will be able to see these pictures of the chad valley factory and railway station???pleaseeeeeeeee
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...hello,liz, how r you,...liz is there any way of seeing the ghost/pic, at the start of this topic,..what lefthooker,done..if its poss,...cheers,...christy..
 
Hi Christy/Pam m the only way is if the person who posted them originally still has them, were having to repost everything,
 
Christy, I sorry Lefthooker left the forum about 2 years ago , and removed the images, so unless anyone else took copies it's very un-likely that the images will ever be re-posted.

Colin
 
Hi all, my name is ted jones, i worked as a toolmaker at a company called Cartwrights in weston rd,Brookfields/Hockley about 1957, which was a subsidery company of Chad Valley, the security at that time was appalling, you could and most of us did, help yourself to anything, one guy even made a sidecar for his motorbike, i know because i helped him. i remember one particular method of making branches for x/mas trees, where a woman would put a ostrich type feather in a high speed spindle, switch it on, and whilst it rotated run a fine line of brass wire up its length, this threw the segments of the feather outwards, so creating a branch, brilliant, i wonder who thought that one up, Cartwrights eventually closed, and some of us transferd to another subsidery Hall and Lane based in Leopold St Highgate, again my memory of that company is that most of us in the toolroom discovered a stock area where thousands of parts for air rifles was just left, discontinued i think is the term, being mostly young men we soon had them reasembled, come dinnertime we had a shooting gallery going in the toolroom, even producing our own slugs. Regards Ted J.
 
My wife say's she lived next door to a Chad Valley factory in Leapold Street.Derritend. Does anyone know the history of this part of the company.
 
I remember "Chad Valley", I thought it was in Harborne?, though I suppose it could have had other sites in Birmingham.
paul
 
Back in the 80s a Mr Hales moved into our Village. He was the (then) owner? CEO? of Chad Valley Toys. The family left after 5 years. His horse won the Grand National this year.
 
Bikeral72 I lived not far away in William Edward St, went to Hope St,
 
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Astonian said:
Hi PMCI947
MANY THANKS FOR DOWN LOADING THAT BRILLIANT PIC.
OF CHAD VALLEY FOR US ,IT LOOKED A VERY LARGE FACTORY
AND I WAS HIGHLY SURPRIZED WHEN YOU SAID IT WAS IN
ROSE ROAD HARBORNE , I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS IN
NURSERY RD HARBORNE, DOWN BY THE ALLOTMENTS BY
WESTFIELD RD ,THANKS AGAIN.
PMC; SORRY IF YOU THINK I AM TRYING TO TAXED YOUR
BRAIN ,THIS TIME OF NIGHT , BUT COULD YOU POSSIBLE
TELL ME ,WHAT YEAR THEY CLOSED THAT BRANCH ,
AND DID THEY KNOCK IT DOWN AND BUILD THE POLICE
STATION ,THAT IS THERE NOW ,AS WE KNOW OF
ROSE ROAD POLICE STATION HARBORNE
I KNOW ALOT OF POLICE OFFICIERS ,AND I KNOW
THE LICENCEING OFFICIER FOR THE PUBS IN B,HAM
IS STATIONED THERE , HE USED TO BE STATIONED AT
DIGBETH ,
UP TO ABOUT AFEW YEARS AGO ,
MANY THANKS AND KEEP YOUR THREADS COMING IN ,
BEST WISHES ,;;;;;;;;;;;
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Hi Astonian, the Harborne railway closed to goods traffic on the 4th November 1963, while the passenger service had ceased 29 years before in 1934, when the line was still operated by the LMS. The factory closed in 1972, and was gutted by fire a year later. The police station and Chad Valley close were built on the site of the factory, and Frensham way was built on the site of the old railway station in the 1970's
 
Viv,

My late wife's late uncle, Ambrose Dorman, worked there for many years, though I have no idea what he actually did. Good photo, thanks.

Maurice
 
Hi Maurice. Every child's dream I should think, to be let loose in a toy factory. Was probably just another job to adults who worked there. As a child I'd have headed straight to the teddy bear section, but I also liked mechanical wind-up toys too. Viv.
 
A bit like tasting the daily sample at Bournville, which I did for 3 years or so. Fine (Dairy milk tastes even nicer when it is just 2 weeks old) except for one occasion when someone had accidentally used milk fat that was a bit off and had been condemned and added it to the Bournville plain chocolate. That was definitely not nice
 
Mike,

I know this might be sacrilege, but I've never liked Cadbury's chocolate. Hershey's is even worse - probably a mixture of cocoa & candle fat! And some muck I tasted in Toronto a few years ago was even worse still. I don't think you can beat genuine Belgian chocolate, but it is expensive.

Maurice
 
I'd rather have a soft toy!

I had had one of these

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But I, oh so desperately, wanted one of these and never got one - sob sob. Viv

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Maurice
I would agree that Belgian dark chocolate is very nice, but milk powder milk chocolates, which is what their milk chocolates are, to me often taste stale and oxidised
 
Here you are Maurice. Something to encourage you to save for that expensive Belgian chocolate you're partial to. Had no idea that Chad Valley made these. I remember having one. And Mke, just be patient I'll find you a nice toy too? Viv.

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