grinder Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 (edited) At it's peak Laycock Eng. had a total work force of two to three thousand, working at four factories, two at Millhouses and two on Little London road.. (and they wonder why there aren't many job around now) Add to this shift work which meant you very rarely mixed with the people on the opposite shift and you can see how you could easily work for years at the same Factory, at the same time as some one and only be on nodding terms.... Edited December 6, 2011 by grinder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harmston Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Whillywhite GRINDER info for you Some time in the past the name of SAM MARSDEN came up and I know some of you remember him I have to tell you Sam past away last weekend aged 92 Service at City Rd Mon 6/1/12 !0- 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin63 Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Sad news again I'm afraid. Morris Starbuck has also past away, he worked as chargehand on the driven plate line at Archer Road. Long may Sam and Morris RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin63 Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 (edited) . . . Edited February 1, 2012 by kevin63 For some reason post duplicated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grinder Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Sorry to hear about Sam and Morris I also hear Mick Drayton past away a short while ago. I can remember Mick from way back in the days of the Saturday ROCK & ROLL nights at the Sports club in the Fifties.. Doesn't Time fly.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willybite Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 (edited) Sorry to hear about Sam and Morris I also hear Mick Drayton past away a short while ago. I can remember Mick from way back in the days of the Saturday ROCK & ROLL nights at the Sports club in the Fifties.. Doesn't Time fly.... hiya i remembe sam also his brother charlie who worked in the hub shop,also maurice starbuck the setter, i met with him last year, or the year before at the hallamshire hospital, didn't recognise him until we got out of the ambulance it was when he was saying about his cars to the driver, when i saId hello maurice he then asked who i was as he could not see very good. Edited February 12, 2012 by willybite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin63 Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 hiya i remembe sam also his brother charlie who worked in the hub shop,also maurice starbuck the setter, i met with him last year, or the year before at the hallamshire hospital, didn't recognise him until we got out of the amulance it was when he was saying about his cars to the driver, when i saId hello maurice he then asked who i was as he could not see very good. Maurice lived just up the road from me and I always saw him standing outside at his gate, his eyes and legs were giving him problems. He still seemed to be the same bloke that I knew back in 78 when I went on the driven plate line though. I will always remember him as a great genuine bloke who loved his cars, I still see his son now and again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shefflich Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 I remember Maurice Rogers very well. Although very much older than me, he was a freind of my parents, growing up with them back in the 1920s when they all attended Cemetery Road Baptist Church. Maurice was a keen photographer and took the pictures for our wedding back in 1970. His wife died shortly after that and he died some years after but not sure just when. If he was still alive he would be approaching 100! He had, before working at Laycock's, been a tea taster for a Sheffield firm of tea importers whose name escapes me now. Very different from the engineering world! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shefflich Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Yes, he did live in Woodseats. Nice to hear such good things about him. He was 75 when he died. Maurice lived in Millhouses on Pingle Avenue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grinder Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Maurice lived in Millhouses on Pingle Avenue. Then he must have moved after his retirement. Mr Rodgers was my foreman from 1964 up to his retirement, he lived on either Mitchell or Marshall road near the Woodseats Library back then .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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