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  • Apprentice intake 1971

    Apprentice intake 1971

    17/12/2012
    Click on the photograph to enlarge the image or the apprentice names which have hyperlinks to learn more about them. Back ...
  • Apprentice intake 1977

    Apprentice intake 1977

    17/12/2012
    Click on the photograph to enlarge the image. Back row (standing L-R) Stuart Harries; John Davis; Derrick Morgan; ? ; David Cullen-Smith. Upper ...
  • Bill Thomas

    Bill Thomas

    17/12/2012
    Head of the Drawing Office in the 1930s and 40s
  • Samuel Fielding

    Samuel Fielding

    17/12/2012
    From farmer's son to foundry founder
  • Jack Fielding's Christmas cards

    Jack Fielding's Christmas cards

    13/12/2012
    A photogallery of the draughtsman's annual drawings, 1930-1962
  • Fielding children's Christmas parties

    Fielding children's Christmas parties

    13/12/2012
    A festive company tradition
  • Apprentice intake 1961

    Apprentice intake 1961

    13/12/2012
    Click on the image to enlarge the photograph. Back row (standing L-R) Bob Gough; John Powell; Bob Mumford; Terry Wathen; Reg Foy; M Brownrigg ; ? ; ...
  • Ken Daniell

    Ken Daniell

    03/12/2012
    Draughtsman, 1940-1983
  • Apprentice intake 1967

    Apprentice intake 1967

    28/11/2012
    Click on the photograph to enlarge the image. Back row (standing L-R) Dave Lewis; Mike Willmott; Tim Lodge; James “Jim” Aston; … ...
  • Apprentice intake 1963

    Apprentice intake 1963

    28/11/2012
    Click on the photograph to enlarge the image. Back row (standing L-R) Tim Beard; Mike Bolton; A T Hawker; Alistair Adams; Anthony ...
  • Apprentice intake 1964

    Apprentice intake 1964

    28/11/2012
    Click on the photograph to enlarge the image. Back row (standing L-R) Pete Pickernell; Tony Barton; Graham Aston; Graham Coughlin; Jonathan Swift; ...
  • Apprentice intake 1965

    Apprentice intake 1965

    28/11/2012
    Click on the photograph to enlarge the image. Back row (standing L-R) Nick Swann; Cyril Aldridge; Daryll Parsons; Richard Bennett (son of ...
  • Apprentice intake 1966

    Apprentice intake 1966

    28/11/2012
    Click on the photograph to enlarge the image. Back row (standing L-R) ? ; Chris Horsham; Linden L Dennis; Mike Fisher; Paul ...
  • How Fielding's Slab Presses were different from the rest?

    How Fielding's Slab Presses were different from the rest?

    27/11/2012
    Al Adams explains and recalls the Hexagonal Slab Press made in the late 1960s
  • Fielding Hydraulically Pressed Concrete

    Fielding Hydraulically Pressed Concrete

    27/11/2012
    A brochure from the 1950s
  • 500 ton Three-Mould Concrete Slab Press, c.1891

    500 ton Three-Mould Concrete Slab Press, c.1891

    27/11/2012
    for Adamant Stone, c.1891
  • Frank Berry Fielding

    Frank Berry Fielding

    21/11/2012
    Memories of a kind-hearted draughtsman
  • David Prouse

    David Prouse

    15/11/2012
    The View of Fieldings from Finch's Butchers on St Luke's Street
  • Opening of Fielding and Platt Gallery at Gloucester Quays

    Opening of Fielding and Platt Gallery at Gloucester Quays

    12/11/2012
    Sharing the Fielding story with the people of Gloucester
  • Dennis Norman

    Dennis Norman

    08/11/2012
    Drawing Office Apprentice 1937-1942
  • The Drawing Office in the 1930s

    The Drawing Office in the 1930s

    08/11/2012
    Dennis Norman recalls the room, its characters, and atmosphere
  • Frank Berry Fielding

    Frank Berry Fielding

    30/10/2012
    Gloucester's first goal-scoring sensation
  • Apprentice intake 1957

    Apprentice intake 1957

    26/10/2012
    Click the photograph to enlarge the image. Back row (standing L-R) ? ; Maurice Chalker; Paul Daniels; Dave Moore; ? ; Barry R ...
  • Apprentice intake 1959

    Apprentice intake 1959

    26/10/2012
    Click on the photograph to enlarge the image. Back row (Standing L-R) Harry Field; Philip Marshal; Keith Rhodes; Keith Elliot; Stuart Bick; ...
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Latest comments
  • 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...
  • Here & There Photos on Jim Fielding’s 1 1/2-litre Type 37 Grand Prix Bugatti

    30/06/2022
    I believe this photograph was taken in Tuffley Avenue where the family lived at that time.
  • Pete Wardle on 2100 ton Upstroking Multi-Daylight Platen Press, O/No. 3010, c.1951

    16/05/2022
    This press was resealed by Pete and Tom Wardle of Wessex Hydraulic Services. I am ex-Fielding & Platt. I currently...
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