• Skip to content
Fielding and Platt History
Gathering and sharing memories of
Gloucester's great engineering firm
  • Home
  • About
  • People
  • Machinery
  • The Works
  • The Docks Area
  • Social Life
  • Events
  • Contact us
  • Tell us your story
You are here: HomenextLatest comments

Latest comments

Here you can see a list of the most recently added comments on this site. You can add your own comments at the bottom of any page on the site.

  • Basharat A Khan on Fielding Horizontal Diesel Engine, Serial No. 040060

    10/08/2019
    Hi, I come from a family in Fiji who ran privately owned electricity business supplying power to the township of...

  • Graham 'Chippy' Aston on ARTHUR RIGBY

    09/08/2019
    A great character and a very funny man, as I said in one of my posts a few years ago,...

  • Frances Saul-Georgel on Francis John Platt

    08/08/2019
    I am one of Winifred Frances (not Francis) May (nee Platt)’s granddaughters. Her date of birth was 24th (not 14th)...

  • Mike Cox on Fielding & Platt Saw Bench (date unknown)!

    13/07/2019
    Hi! I have one of these saw benches, badge is the same as one shown but says MAKERS in the...

  • keith hickman on Horizontal Milling Machine (Cincinatti), c.1959

    14/06/2019
    The image is of a horizontal milling machine not a vertical. Ed: Quite right, Keith, don't know how that one...

  • Wesley Payne on 1128 ton Fielding/Richards Iron Shark Shear and Squeeze Box, views taken on site, O/No. 64040, c.1964

    02/06/2019
    We currently are running this model of shear and keep limping it through. Years ago we updated the hydraulics with...

  • Betty Norbury (his daughter) on ERIC ROBERT PENNING Apprentice to Project Manager 1938 – 1979

    27/05/2019
    Eric died peacefully on Sunday 26th May 2019 - proud to the end of his working life in engineering. Ed:...

  • Andrew JL Fielding on Photographs of Social Events, Nos. 41-87, some including Jim Fielding

    20/05/2019
    The Military photo (No.82) is of my father F. James Fielding, in the black overcoat. Next to him is my...

  • Kathrine Davies on Doris Marjorie Fielding

    26/04/2019
    Really very sad to read that Marjorie Fielding died in middle age and of cancer. She was a wonderful character...

  • Barbara Vosnakis on Engine and Hydraulic Press, c.1936

    20/04/2019
    Hi! I am very interested in this old diesel engine as I have lived in Scala, Kefalonia, for 25 years...

  • Alan Bond on 1600 ton Horizontal Extrusion Press, O/No. 65580, c.1965

    14/04/2019
    I worked with this machine for thirty years, 1976 to 2006. One of two installed at Witham. The factory closed...

  • Steven Ashton on Edith May Williams (nee Willey)

    10/04/2019
    Arthur and Edith were my grandparents. Sadly missed but never forgotten. Thanks for the efforts in making this available. Steven...

  • colin price on Dave Budrey remembers the Tool Room

    05/04/2019
    Hi! I am Colin Price; the borer in the tool room was Jack Price, my father. Ed: Colin, thanks for...

  • Alistair Adams on Fielding’s Apprentices’ Association badge

    25/03/2019
    Hi Brian, I have still got one of these badges which I obtained towards the end of my Apprenticeship, which...

  • Sue Sysum on The Maintenance Department

    17/03/2019
    Glad to see pictures of my grandfather, Jack Sysum. My dad was really pleased to see the photos of his...

  • Roy Popejoy on F & P Apprentices outside Gloucester Technical College Brunswick Road

    03/03/2019
    This photograph was taken outside Gloucester college.This would have been 1969 ish coming to the end of T5. All of...

  • Graham 'Chippy' Aston on The Home Guard

    03/03/2019
    First right, back row, looks like someone from the Heavy machine shop, Nobby ?; second right, back row, possibly Les...

  • Dave on 4000 ton Plate Stretching Machine, views taken on site, O/No. 57180, c.1959

    27/02/2019
    That's it! "Loewy" I was trying to remember this name. It was cast into the parts that went to Germany....

  • Dave on 4000 ton Plate Stretching Machine, views taken on site, O/No. 57180, c.1959

    26/02/2019
    I'm thinking it was the larger machine which was repaired and I say this because of the location of the...

  • Dave on 4000 ton Plate Stretching Machine, views taken on site, O/No. 57180, c.1959

    25/02/2019
    Perhaps the name for the other stretcher at Alcan in the 80's was the "Magnum"? I worked in the machine...

  • Steve Davis on The Home Guard

    06/02/2019
    Stan Russell, middle row far left. Ed: Stan, many thanks for the information. Let's hope we can identify a few...

  • Andrew Hillier on Leonard “Peno” Lane

    31/01/2019
    My grandfather and great grandfather! Ed: Hi Andrew! Thanks for the info. Glad you spotted this one on our ever-increasing...

  • virginia singdahlsen on Kate Platt

    29/01/2019
    In the hopes that Dorothy Saul-Pooley checks in with this sight I am the granddaughter of John Platt, sister of...

  • Trevor Hill on 120 BHP 4 cyl. Vertical Oil Engine, c.1935

    22/01/2019
    John, I am still hoping that some day I will hear of one of the vertical diesels still in existence...
Latest pages

  • Bill Hoult

    22/08/2019
    My father, Bill Hoult, worked at Fielding & Platt from approximately 1940 until he was made redundant in around 1986.  ...

  • ARTHUR RIGBY

    08/08/2019
    Tuesday 6th August saw the demise of  yet another of our well-known and respected colleagues, Arthur Rigby. Arthur’s funeral has been ...

  • ERIC PENNING

    06/06/2019
    Today we have to report the death of yet another former colleague, Eric Penning. Eric joined the Company in 1938 as ...

  • DONALD BLAKE

    15/04/2019
    Today we have to record the death of another ex-colleague, Donald (Don)  Blake, on the 23rd of March 2019. He was ...
More new pages
  • Friends of Gloucestershire Archives
  • Gloucester City Centre Community Partnership
  • Gloucestershire County Council
  • Gloucestershire Heritage Hub
  • Group Rhodes
  • Heritage Lottery Fund
  • Terms of use
  • Privacy
  • Accessibility
  • Admin login
Content released under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0
Website by CommunitySites