1953 Halifax Coronation souvenir brochure

[optima21]

seems to be appropriate to post some adverts from the 1953 Halifax Coronation souvenir brochure including some of the local engineering companies too, sadly most of them dont exist anymore/

 

[optima21]

and a few more

and this one is one from 1953 for John Mackintosh, the makers of Quality Street chocolates

 

[Kayos]

I remember walking past the wire place often as a small child, could never understand the stuff left outside to go rusty

 

[bricol]

I remember walking past the wire place often as a small child, could never understand the stuff left outside to go rusty

Bloke up the road from my mum's burnt the place down 30 (?) years ago, welding his line managers car on a night shift . . .

 

[brewdexta]

My dad worked at British Ropes, now Bridon, in Balby, Doncaster. They made high tensile wire ropes, he worked in the lead vats where the individual wires would be drawn to their final size then put through a molten lead bath, presumably for tempering.

To counteract the effects of lead he was given a pint of milk a day.

They sprinkled bags of asbestos on top of the molten lead to keep the heat in. He didn't get anything for doing that.

His arms were always covered in welts where the hot wire had whipped when joining lengths of wire.

He told me lots of horror stories about work accidents. One was when somebody walked on top of the vat of lead, thinking it was an unused vat and the heat had been turned off. Only to fall through the crust of asbestos dust and slag and get his boots filled with molten lead... that was a medieval punishment if you visit the Clink prison near London Bridge.

 

[Robotstar5]

My dad went to town with decorating his house for the coronation

We put bunting up for the Silver Jubilee

and closed the top end of the road for a party

 

[Kayos]

Bloke up the road from my mum's burnt the place down 30 (?) years ago, welding his line managers car on a night shift . . .

Must have been 34/35 years ago, left the area when I was about 7

 

[slim_boy_fat]

My dad went to town with decorating his house for the coronation

What was lurking under that tarp in the garden?

 

[Robotstar5]

What was lurking under that tarp in the garden?

Probably a motorcycle.

 

[MattF]

What was lurking under that tarp in the garden?

Nowt wrong with your eyesight, at least.