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  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to lmr3103's post in the thread Ansells Brewery with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Painting for sale on eBay, and an interesting newspaper article regarding it….
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    Richard Dye reacted to lmr3103's post in the thread GEC WITTON WORKS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    My Aunt worked as a typist at the GEC and maintained they were the best years of her life. She kept some of the in house magazine called...
  • Keith R
    Keith R replied to the thread How to I find old street maps?.
    Filters etc etc ....layers...side by side......backgrounds ...all mean nothing...i have been looking at the map linked on here...
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    Donbogen reacted to lmr3103's post in the thread GEC WITTON WORKS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    My Aunt worked as a typist at the GEC and maintained they were the best years of her life. She kept some of the in house magazine called...
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    Donbogen reacted to Cabonscooter's post in the thread GEC WITTON WORKS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Unfortunately, it's the story of the British manufacturing industry. Most of the big names have now disappeared. Each has it's own...
  • MWS
    MWS reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Iommi family with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Ahead of you. Lol. I tried that yesterday and drew a blank. Seems MWS did the same Could look for different spellings though.
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    Richard Dye reacted to Cabonscooter's post in the thread GEC WITTON WORKS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Unfortunately, it's the story of the British manufacturing industry. Most of the big names have now disappeared. Each has it's own...
  • Suzanneiom
    Suzanneiom replied to the thread Iommi family.
    Ive just gone on to all the free websites again and searched different variations and then just the first name and year of death but...
  • Suzanneiom
    Suzanneiom reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Iommi family with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Ahead of you. Lol. I tried that yesterday and drew a blank. Seems MWS did the same Could look for different spellings though.
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    Cabonscooter replied to the thread GEC WITTON WORKS.
    Unfortunately, it's the story of the British manufacturing industry. Most of the big names have now disappeared. Each has it's own...
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    Chattypatty reacted to cookie273uk's post in the thread The Square Old Square with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I believe it had the Capacity painted over the door, 200 comes to mind but could be wrong, having said that I cannot imagine a warden...
  • mikejee
    mikejee replied to the thread GEC WITTON WORKS.
    All your points are very true, in addition to plain greed and corruption, but this thread is concerning GEC. Could we keep to that subject
  • Keith R
    Keith R replied to the thread How to I find old street maps?.
    THis site plays with my mind............just cant get on with it........as you say its click click click and hope..........bit silly...
  • Suzanneiom
    Suzanneiom replied to the thread Iommi family.
    If that's from someone personal tree then its wrong, there is an Alfred felice iommi but its most likely felices son as they lived...
  • Suzanneiom
    Suzanneiom reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Iommi family with Appreciate Appreciate.
    thats odd then as they give the same details as we have...link below...
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