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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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    How to Contribute to this site

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  • What was Fielding & Platt Ltd?

    What was Fielding & Platt Ltd?

Highlights
  • DAVID JONES

    DAVID JONES

    It is with great sadness we announce the death of another well-respected member of the Fielding family. David died last ...
  • Christmas & New Year

    Christmas & New Year

    The Fielding & Platt Heritage Group takes this opportunity to wish all our many readers and their families a Merry ...
  • Photographs

    Photographs

    B & W & Colour photographs - a call to arms!
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  • Memories of working with F&P Presses.

    I was an apprentice with E&E Kaye Ltd of Ponders End, Enfield, from 1973 and finished my time there in ...
  • DAVID JONES

    It is with great sadness we announce the death of another well-respected member of the Fielding family. David died last ...
  • Christmas & New Year

    The Fielding & Platt Heritage Group takes this opportunity to wish all our many readers and their families a Merry ...
All new pages
  • Jordan on The Asquith 5RM Ram Boring Machine

    19/04/2023
    Hi John, can you contact me regarding any manuals for mechanicals of the 5RM Ram type borer? I am struggling...
  • Gordon Platt on Ralph Ernest Platt

    20/03/2023
    Editors and Amanda, I'm so pleased that Filleigh House has residents that care about its past. Please pass on my...
  • Gordon Platt on Kate Platt

    20/03/2023
    Amazing! We have a number of Kate's lovely watercolours framed that my father, Peter Leverich Waddington Platt (son of Ralph...
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