John Bedford & Sons Ltd, Mowbray St. Neepsend

[cookingfat50]

I worked in the Export Dept., at Bedfords from 1960-1972, great workplace and people and would like to hear from anyone who was there during that period.

 

they were spanner makers as i remember, i did have a set or 2 when i was an apprentice, a set of A/F and Whitworth could never get an answer as to what a/f and whitworth meant anyone tell me please x

[carosio]

they were spanner makers as i remember, i did have a set or 2 when i was an apprentice, a set of A/F and Whitworth could never get an answer as to what a/f and whitworth meant anyone tell me please x

 

Quick link here: http://reviews.ebay.co.uk/Understanding-Whitworth-BSF-AF-BA-and-metric-tools?ugid=10000000003499809&clk_rvr_id=271070567134

[Geir Keys]

Hi again!

Hope everything is working out after your wife's stroke.

Is the trip on Hurtigruten still on this month?

I'll be away a couple of days next week but otherwise hope we can get together for a chat when you are in Bergen.

Geir

[royt2209]

Don't suppose anyone can recall any product numbers from the Bedford catalogues.A colleague at work insists brick bolsters were code 400,but I disagree.

[aussieblade]

Hi Neil Memmott, Did you used to live on Upper Valley Road? and was there a Derek Memmott? My name is Ed Harvey, and I lived at 110 Rushdale Road, from 1942 to 1964, when we migrated to Melbourne Australia. I went to Carfield Primary, then to High Storrs Grammar. From U.V.Rd, I remember Ken Collis, Derek Billard, Raymond Steele, Brian Dale, Barry Ducker, Malcolm Wright. Malcolm was a close friend, and lived at 87 I think, next to Coopers on the corner. Have tried to locate Malcolm, but to no avail. Best wishes to you and yours. I hope you are keeping well. Kind Regards, Ed Harvey.

[daisy47]

does anyone remember Horace Hinchliffe my grandad ? he left Bedford's around the early to mid 1970s

[rhodesian]

any one know geoff nuttall

 

is this any help there is a graham nutall lives on gleadless valley

[stevenwb]

I found this thread when researching John Bedford & Sons. My son was asking about my father (Ron Boyd) who appears in this thread. It was strange to see "made his bed, lie in it" not a comment I could ever think my father would say.

 

Ron Boyd was killed along with my mother in 1971 in an air crash.

[emo924]

Steven

 

I hope my comments regarding your Dad haven't caused any offence as that was not my intention at all. After all this time I am probably paraphrasing what I was told at the time by my then ex-Manager but the gist of it is essentially accurate. His view appeared to be that I had chosen to leave in the first place so couldn't expect to be able to walk straight back in as my new job was not what I had hoped.

I certainly bore him no grudge then, nor now.

I am sorry to learn of your parents' deaths espcially in those circumstances tooand only some months it seems after I had left Bedfords.

Regards

 

Chris

Edited June 7, 2015 by emo924

[stevenwb]

Chris (Emo924)

Rest assured you haven't caused any offence.

Looking at my comments again, I can see why you are concerned that you may have offended me.

I was only a child at the time of the accident. When I read your comments, it just reminded me that I have only childhood memories. After such a long passage of time my memories are very vague. I never knew my father through adult eyes.

I still have a few John Bedford spanners, in AF and Whitworth, not a lot of use now. Just sentimental value. He worked at Hamptons before Bedfords, I still have a Record vice, still going strong.

I remember the name Reid, I believe that was my Dads boss.

As a result of the accident my younger sister and I moved to Essex, which is where I stayed. I have no longer any family links with Sheffield, I still support Wednesday and usually go to the away local matches.

I visited Sheffield for the first time in over 30 years recently, trams again and where has the "hole in the road" gone? You'll be telling me that Redgates has gone,next LOL