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Crane's screw and colgryp castor company Ltd

AstonGazz

proper brummie kid
Cranes screw flyer.jpgHI all, Calling all ex-workers of this screw making factory in floodgate street digbeth Birmingham. Any memories of this ex mission hall building.
cheers, Gazz.
 
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Cheers jennyann:
What a quick reply just tryed that link great info,it was my first job after leaving school.My dad was the heading forman there but sadly died 4 years before i started as a machine operator.
 
Hi 'Brumgum'

Sorry but that doesn't look anything like the building I used to work in during my apprenticeship - as I remember it was a single storey factory unit. Can anyone else help?

Thanks anyway.
 
hi all I worked at crane screw fasteners my first job when I was 16 I was a customer liaison clerk in the office my names simon it would of been in 1979 the manger was a friend of mine and lived in Dudley but lost touched when I left I was only there a year it was a big old building the one in the pictures
 
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