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Welcome to Fielding & Platt History.

Here you can learn about the history of one of Gloucester’s greatest engineering firms.  You can browse through our collection of local historical material, which includes photos, old documents and the memories of local people. If you worked for or lived near Fielding & Platt please share your memories and photographs of the company here too. Find out more about us or get in touch.

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  • Centenary Film & 12 Promotional Films

    Centenary Film & 12 Promotional Films

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    How to Contribute to this site

  • Latest events

    Latest events

  • What was Fielding & Platt Ltd?

    What was Fielding & Platt Ltd?

Highlights
  • COLIN ORGAN

    COLIN ORGAN

    The  29th July 2022  saw the death  of another of our ex-colleagues at the untimely age of 72.  Colin is ...
  • Programme of events 2022

    Programme of events 2022

      We are now into April 2022 and summertime, longer days and hopefully warmer weather is with us.  Unfortunately, Covid 19 ...
  • Photographs

    Photographs

    B & W & Colour photographs - a call to arms!
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  • Tools made during an apprenticeship 1949 - 1954

    These Tools were made by John Davis, most of them in the Craft School but others in the various shops ...

  • COLIN ORGAN

    The  29th July 2022  saw the death  of another of our ex-colleagues at the untimely age of 72.  Colin is ...

  • Mr F. B. Fielding, 1944

    Frank Berry Fielding in 1944
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  • Mrs H Remblance on Apprentices

    17/08/2022
    My uncle, Archie Sinclair, was an apprentice. Probably late 1930s. He was always proud of having been an apprentice there....

  • Gwyneth Atkinson, née Samuel on Winners of the Inter-platoon Competition

    05/08/2022
    Back row second in on the left, I believe, is my father, Stanley Selwyn Samuel, known as Taffy. Ed: Gwyneth,...

  • Evgeniy on 1500/1700 ton Horizontal Tube Extrusion Presses for direct & indirect processes, O/No. 4080, c.1942

    02/08/2022
    I'm not exactly sure, but maybe I'm working on this press right now. Ed: Many thanks for your comment. If...
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