poppins Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Did anyone work at Husband & Company in the late 50/60s it was the Architects building top of West Street ? they were commissioned to build the bridge for The Bridge on the river Kwai film in 1957, my Mom was the tea lady there, cleaner, jack of all trades in the end, we had a flat on the top floor for a few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackbeard Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 On the 8th of September 1949 Charles Husband met Bernard Lovell in a muddy field in Cheshire. From that meeting Husband went on to design the giant 250ft radio telescope at Jodrell Bank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pattricia Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 On the 8th of September 1949 Charles Husband met Bernard Lovell in a muddy field in Cheshire. From that meeting Husband went on to design the giant 250ft radio telescope at Jodrell Bank. Yes a giant photograph of this was in their reception area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHAIRBOY Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Were they not on Glossop Road, just opposite the back of the students' union building? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pattricia Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Were they not on Glossop Road, just opposite the back of the students' union building? Yes thats where the firm was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartav Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 388 Glossop Road from memory! I was there before the new office block was built & moved on about 1960. Don't remember a tea lady though.... we had to make our own & took it in turns to go into the ground floor kitchen twice a day. The lads upstairs had coffee, some of the girls had Oxo. I got it wrong once & put their Oxo into our saucepan of milk. It looked like coffee, but it wasn't appreciated. Cost me two pints of milk that day & we'd got to fetch it from the shops above Wilkinson St. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppins Posted January 25, 2008 Author Share Posted January 25, 2008 388 Glossop Road from memory! I was there before the new office block was built & moved on about 1960. Don't remember a tea lady though.... we had to make our own & took it in turns to go into the ground floor kitchen twice a day. The lads upstairs had coffee, some of the girls had Oxo. I got it wrong once & put their Oxo into our saucepan of milk. It looked like coffee, but it wasn't appreciated. Cost me two pints of milk that day & we'd got to fetch it from the shops above Wilkinson St. Yes Glossop rd, I got mixed up with WestSt and Glossop. My Mother and I lived in the flat on the top floor for a couple of years, that could have been either before or after your time there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackbeard Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Has anyone got a picture of Charles Husband?? I have been searching for one but I have been unable to find one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppins Posted January 25, 2008 Author Share Posted January 25, 2008 Has anyone got a picture of Charles Husband?? I have been searching for one but I have been unable to find one. Wasn't it owned by the Father and his two sons ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pattricia Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 388 Glossop Road from memory! I was there before the new office block was built & moved on about 1960. Don't remember a tea lady though.... we had to make our own & took it in turns to go into the ground floor kitchen twice a day. The lads upstairs had coffee, some of the girls had Oxo. I got it wrong once & put their Oxo into our saucepan of milk. It looked like coffee, but it wasn't appreciated. Cost me two pints of milk that day & we'd got to fetch it from the shops above Wilkinson St. The tea lady started after you left. Around 1963 - 64 I think. She started a canteen on the top floor for the staff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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