charliewag Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 are there any former (or possibly current) footprint tools employees on this forum? what makes me ask is that i worked there from 1975 until being made redundant in 1998. someone i worked with when i first started has recently joined the company i work for now and we got talking about the people on the auger section where he worked. names mentioned included bill day, harry howard, jim almond, george harmston and derek bailey. i should imagine that most of these men will no longer be with us or very old. this company which used to employ around 250 now has a workforce of about 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mediumfast Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 My grandad Harry Goddard used to work there,he said it started to go downhill when BT started using cordless drills Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charliewag Posted January 28, 2012 Author Share Posted January 28, 2012 i remember your grandad and i always got on well with him. i didn't work on his section but i was asked to help out a couple of times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoneman Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 hi i worked they around 1981 my job was twisting and regulating auger bits. my brother worked they to he was they longer than me he move to they new site, but was made redundant not long after Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TicTac Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 are there any former (or possibly current) footprint tools employees on this forum? what makes me ask is that i worked there from 1975 until being made redundant in 1998. someone i worked with when i first started has recently joined the company i work for now and we got talking about the people on the auger section where he worked. names mentioned included bill day, harry howard, jim almond, george harmston and derek bailey. i should imagine that most of these men will no longer be with us or very old. this company which used to employ around 250 now has a workforce of about 10. My father inlaw worked there, he was a streightener, Walt Ford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weblades Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 My dad, Herbert Ward, worked there (probably as an apprentice) in the late 1940's - 1950's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charliewag Posted August 14, 2013 Author Share Posted August 14, 2013 My father inlaw worked there, he was a streightener, Walt Ford. that name is familiar. do you know which department he worked in as there were quite a few straighteners around the firm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weblades Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 I'm sorry, I've no idea which department my dad worked in, but it would probably have been in lathes or turning. I do know that when he later worked at Laycocks Engineering he worked on the turret lathes. He would have been known as Bert, and I believe he played in the works football team. I have a copy of a photo which, I'm told, is probably the Footprint works team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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