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  • Chris Farley on Fielding Hydraulic Pumps

    14/07/2020
    As an apprentice, in about 1963, I worked on reconditioning an H15 pump with a fitter who taught me a...

  • Alan Wakefield on Cricket team photograph

    02/07/2020
    Roy Wakefield is my dad - long gone now. Had a bit of a Clark Gable look about him, but...

  • Chris Farley on Wayne Roberts

    02/07/2020
    I remember the names that Wayne has listed. The only addition I can think of is Terry Cooper. I started...

  • Graham 'Chippy' Aston on PETER SKELTON

    30/06/2020
    A very familiar face around the works, sad to hear this news. RIP Pete.

  • Gordon Tozer on Phil Allen

    17/06/2020
    Just catching up with posts on this website and enjoyed reading this once again. Haven't visited the site for some...

  • Chris Dickson on Ralph Ernest Platt

    15/06/2020
    Hello John! My cousin has five photographs in a family album taken at Filleigh House in, I should say, the...

  • Chris Farley on Ken Juggins and colleague

    05/06/2020
    I remember Ken Juggins as a lovely man, quite quiet and with a dry sense of humour. I was a...

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

    03/06/2020
    Just read the comment from D Worthington from Bolton who also remembered the plaque I remember on the diesel engine...

  • james potter on 1600 ton Horizontal Aluminium Extrusion Plant, views taken on site, O/No. 63230, c.1963

    22/05/2020
    Hi John! Yes, I was working on it for about two years. One night I was cutting through a piece...

  • Peter Smart on TERENCE OWEN DIX

    13/05/2020
    ! worked on the marking out table that backed onto Terry's machine. I bought my first car off him and...

  • Graham 'Chippy' Aston on KEITH BULLOCK

    05/05/2020
    I can only just remember Keith from my short time in the toolroom during my apprenticeship, but sad all the...

  • William Cousins on Cricket team photograph

    29/04/2020
    Hi I am researching my family history and I have come across this photo. I believe that W. Cousins is...

  • Graham 'Chippy' Aston on TERENCE OWEN DIX

    28/04/2020
    Sad to hear about the passing of Terry, I didn't really know him personally, but I do remember him being...

  • Michael Puusta on Friction Screw Press, c.1953

    22/04/2020
    This looks like the same (or very similar ) friction screw press we had at Jackson and Froggatt in the...

  • Jenny Ball on Isabel Linda Fielding

    08/04/2020
    Can I make a few adjustments to the information relating to Isabel Fielding? She was known as Bellows when young,...

  • Fred on Irrigation canal using pressed concrete interlocking slabs, photographs c.1970, O/No. K75680, c.1969

    07/04/2020
    I was the Slab Factory Manager on the Sadova Corabia Irrigation Project based in Ocolna near Dabulenii Romania from 1971...

  • D Worthington on Engine and Hydraulic Press, c.1936

    18/03/2020
    I have also seen this engine clearly marked Fieldings of Bolton. I have lived in Bolton all my life, 70+...

  • Jeremy Kent on 1000 ton ‘Serck’ Type Vertical Extrusion Press, O/No. 6547, c.1951

    22/02/2020
    Hi, I worked on this as a production worker in 1992, Wednesbury tube had 4 of them and still worked...

  • Eli Yudkevich on Erco Hysp 300 ton, 75 ton and 150 ton Two-Cylinder Hydraulic Stretch Forming Machines, c.1946

    07/02/2020
    looking for documentation to reinstall erco 300T . Thanks Ed: Eli, I must advise you that it is extremely unlikely...

  • Graham 'Chippy' Aston on The Butler Elgamill

    31/01/2020
    RIP Mike.

  • Graham 'Chippy' Aston on MIKE HEWLETT

    31/01/2020
    Sad to hear of the passing of Mike, nice guy, RIP.

  • Graham 'Chippy' Aston on Fielding & Platt Football Team

    31/01/2020
    Hi John. A few faces I think I recognise, back left George Claridge, back second right Bill Ashmore maybe and...

  • Dave Budrey on Ron Curtis talks about his photograph of Bert Hopton, Brian Mince and Charles Hill’s son.

    25/01/2020
    I believe Mr Hill had the same christian name as his father - Charles. The year was 1960. I also...

  • Dorothy Saul-Pooley on Francis John Platt

    10/01/2020
    Kathleen Laura Platt was born on 20th July 1910. Francis Platt travelled extensively on business through occupied France in 1915....
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  • Programme of events 2020 (Revised)

    04/07/2020
    Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it is with regret that the 2020 Annual Reunion in August has had to be ...

  • 1500 ton Forging Press at IFA Precision Forge, Sheffield, Part 3

    01/07/2020
    60 years on and still going strong!

  • PETER SKELTON

    26/06/2020
    It is with sadness we have to make known that Pete passed away on Friday 12th June 2020. He was ...

  • Centenary Film

    10/06/2020
    A film made to commemorate the centenary of the company in 1966
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