Steel Peech and Tozer

[Bludragonfly]

My Dad worked there too - at Ickles but after the dates on the medal

[shanes teeth]

i worked at spt (steelos) untill they closed it dec 1993, found memorys

 

Should that be foundry memorys?

[geared]

Are you trying to reunite the medal with its former owner?

 

Chances are if he left work in the 50's he's probably dead now, good chance his children are quite old now as well.

[trastrick]

i worked at spt (steelos) untill they closed it dec 1993, found memorys

 

Where did you work?

 

I was there on contract from 1954 on and off til 1960. In those days we did everything, from blacksmithing, machine tooling, welding, cutting and fabricating steel. Even drove the overhead cranes to change light bulbs.

 

Until the unions got tough, and told us we could not touch anything other than our electricians tools.

[shaunfl]

Where did you work?

 

I was there on contract from 1954 on and off til 1960. In those days we did everything, from blacksmithing, machine tooling, welding, cutting and fabricating steel. Even drove the overhead cranes to change light bulbs.

 

Until the unions got tough, and told us we could not touch anything other than our electricians tools.

 

 

I always had the impression that the tricians I worked with were scared of their tools !! :)

[trastrick]

I always had the impression that the tricians I worked with were scared of their tools !! :)

 

 

 

"where does tha work?"

 

"Stanley's Tool Works"

 

"so does mine, but where does tha work"?

Edited May 6, 2013 by trastrick

[shaunfl]

 

 

 

"where does tha work?"

 

"Stanley's Tool Works"

 

"so does mine, but where does tha work"?

 

Firth Brown - Forgemasters - Allvac, 71 to 2010

[Library]

A document about Steel Peech & Tozer, date unknown, on Sheffield History.

 

http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic/13228-steel-peech-tozer/?hl=%22steel+peech%22

[raymondo1952]

Remember catching no69 bus to Rotherham,going down pastTempleborough what a dirty place it was then,when it was steel peach and tozer, smoke dust grime everywhere. Now as people say poxy magna it is cleaner by miles,allso i like to bet a lot of the hard working steel men who worked in a lot of these melting shops suffered chest/ lung disease in the future

[trastrick]

Remember catching no69 bus to Rotherham,going down pastTempleborough what a dirty place it was then,when it was steel peach and tozer, smoke dust grime everywhere. Now as people say poxy magna it is cleaner by miles,allso i like to bet a lot of the hard working steel men who worked in a lot of these melting shops suffered chest/ lung disease in the future

 

We contract electricians used to go in gangs during shutdown fortnight to replace electrical wiring, heavy cables, motors, swtiches etc. They ran 24/7 at all other times. Everything was inches deep in thick black soot and so were we.

 

Basically in street clothes, no protective gear, hats, boots or safety equipment. They had a hospital on site where you could get a de-hydration drink when you came out from under the furnaces (that were still hot and glowing in most cases). Balancing on greasy overhead cranes to install or repair lighting ,drilling girders and welding brackets high in the roof.

 

It was as bad as anything in Charles Dickens, only difference was we got to work around the clock and earn more money in those two weeks than we could in two months.