Ex Briton worker
Brummie babby
I have been reading with great interest about different people who have worked at William Newman and sons ltd in hospital street,when I left school in 1958 this was my first job.
I worked in Bert bollards shop for my first couple of years doing anything from labouring to fetching hot dogs next to the spray shop and machining door parts.I met a great set of people there and had a great laugh with fellow workers.i then was transfered to the Briton shop under the tuition of old Jackie Rose .
All the names you people have mentioned I knew ,the Clark bro,s Horace Poole Stan Haywood who for some reason was always tugging on his trousers at the rear end.
Christmas time there was magic as the beer flowed we all stopped work and I went upstairs to. See the girls in packing ,I had took my reel to reel tape recorder to play music but Stan came running over asking me to turn it down as they could not hear the tannoy.I cannot imagine this going on today happy days. I also remember going on evening nights out on a coach to some pub with a lot of workers in charge of all this was a Mr Goodchild , yet again a good time was had by all .the beer in those days was mainly ansells or m&b mild ,never heard of bitter then.
I had a motorbike then ,it was a 1958 BSA Gold Flash ( wish I still had it ).You could not mistake the sound of it ,it used to frighten Jackie Rose as I passed him on his little 2 Stroke. Joe Bromwich the man who loaded the assembled Britons on the conveyer up to the packing girls above ,his name just came to me as I was typing.
I then went to Bescot Walsall to work on the Acme Gridleys with a very good friend of mine Roy Hines the foreman there was Len Littlewood his nickname was Splinter
I hope this has brushed some dust off the past.
For me the best working days of my life.
I worked in Bert bollards shop for my first couple of years doing anything from labouring to fetching hot dogs next to the spray shop and machining door parts.I met a great set of people there and had a great laugh with fellow workers.i then was transfered to the Briton shop under the tuition of old Jackie Rose .
All the names you people have mentioned I knew ,the Clark bro,s Horace Poole Stan Haywood who for some reason was always tugging on his trousers at the rear end.
Christmas time there was magic as the beer flowed we all stopped work and I went upstairs to. See the girls in packing ,I had took my reel to reel tape recorder to play music but Stan came running over asking me to turn it down as they could not hear the tannoy.I cannot imagine this going on today happy days. I also remember going on evening nights out on a coach to some pub with a lot of workers in charge of all this was a Mr Goodchild , yet again a good time was had by all .the beer in those days was mainly ansells or m&b mild ,never heard of bitter then.
I had a motorbike then ,it was a 1958 BSA Gold Flash ( wish I still had it ).You could not mistake the sound of it ,it used to frighten Jackie Rose as I passed him on his little 2 Stroke. Joe Bromwich the man who loaded the assembled Britons on the conveyer up to the packing girls above ,his name just came to me as I was typing.
I then went to Bescot Walsall to work on the Acme Gridleys with a very good friend of mine Roy Hines the foreman there was Len Littlewood his nickname was Splinter
I hope this has brushed some dust off the past.
For me the best working days of my life.