Anyone worked at Firth Browns?

[davided]

hi kingfisher,

sorry to hear about les & george,still i suppose were all getting older and cant go on forever good thing weve still got our memories apart from the shifts and the work they were good times. thanks for replying .still cant make out who you are though. ive had contact with mick hallam today remember old harry the head man. its been a nostalgic day today, like the song goes memories

[kags]

i know my nan worked there she was mabel dungorth then mabel martin

[skippy]

PopT, I remember the nights in the Alexander, my mates brother in law used to run it, after 10-00pm on weekends we stayed behind until the early hours.

We called the pub the Shakers, as everyone had a tin with dried peas or rice etc and get stuck into the percushion with the juke box blaring.

[alevans]

I worked at Firth Brown Tools, in the mettalurgy lab when I left school, My dad , Douglas worked at Firth Browns though, variously in the rolling mills or as descaler.

[shaunfl]

i worked at firth browns from 1970 - 1976 as a turner in

#4 bay also my father worked in the wages dept.

 

was that 4 bay in the light m/c shop? is the neth short for kenneth:confused: :confused:

[malcy]

I worked there as a turner from leaving school in 76 to the strike in 85. Anyone remember me?

 

Hector

[shelby46]

Hi,

My dad, Jack Green, worked at Firth Browns for years as a shunter, and also at Dunford Hadfields for a while til they moved.

[melv]

My first job after leaving school in 1968 was at Firth Brown's as an apprentice turner, boy was I crap at it. Finished up becoming a welder and doing some maching work in later life. I remember one day getting a turning down my finger while in the training centre and having to go to the ambulance room. When I got there I was scared to death the first aid man was disabled he looked like he had polio and when he came towards me with a large pair pointed tweezers I nearly fainted, well I was only fifteen. Truth was he was fantastic he got the turning out with trouble and dressed the wound like a proper doc. Years later my old boss bought the nitriding factory in the same yard as the old training centre. I think by then Firth Brown's had shut down then and only Firth Brown Tools was still open. Before FB's shutdown I remember welding some hydraulic legs for them, when I delivered them back there was three blokes slinging the work and one driving the crane. I think that was overmanning.

 

I joined FB's in 1969 as a maintenance fitter,and I remember the same first aid man.I didn,t have a turning in my finger,I had something in my eye! He had to steady his right hand with his left,as he made short stabs to extract the piece of grit.Luckily for my eyesight he got it at the third attempt.

I worked in most of the maintenance departments up to leaving in 1979,and have many happy memories .Can anyone recall the inter-departmental cricket match,when the ATS played the Lorry Garage.I scored 3 runs & was given out.I looked at the score book & i'd scored 15 ! Yes,we were fiddling the scores.We got found-out & had to replay the match,& got a severe reprimand from the sports club.

[melv]

Can anyone remember the guy who took over the coaching of the football teams. I think he joined about 1975,and his first name was Keith. His claim to fame was he played for Rotherham and he was the 1st player in the football league to be substituted.

[W Wilkinson]

my dad Roy Wilkinson worked at Firth Browns from 40s to 70s, he was a tool and cutter grinder then worked at Gordan Tools on Rockingham Street until he retired.