Castleworks, old factory site twixt Castletown & Castlefields...

[basil]

Had a stroll past the old factory site at lunchtime and noticed the gates were padlocked and not a soul in sight, i guess it's shut down completely and St Modwem are trying to let the site which pretty sizeable with the surrounding land. For anyone not sure it's the old Bagnalls/English Electric/GEC factory just over the bridge from the Railway Inn........

 

[stoofer34]

Castle Works Vet

68-82

Good route for a bypass LOL

S

 

[My Name is URL]

Or remove the protection for what was supposed to be the bypass and suddenly that land becomes very attractive for houses </council in ulterior motive shocker>

 

[basil]

At a guess about 20 acres?......

 

[John Marwood]

I see Redrow are advertising their soon to be built but with a spec of only 50 years homes on the old Universal site.

There must be some value in a site that size

 

[My Name is URL]

Advertising where old boy?

 

[Gramaisc]

Castle Works Vet


S

Main works had a nurse.

 

[stoofer34]

oh Matron!

 

[basil]

Castle Works Vet


S

Main works had a nurse.

Indeed, and 24hr cover as well. Their medical centre was just inside the st leonards gate for obvious reasons it was very close to the foundry.........

 

[Gramaisc]

Castle Works Vet


S

Main works had a nurse.

Indeed, and 24hr cover as well. Their medical centre was just inside the st leonards gate for obvious reasons it was very close to the foundry.........

They even had their own ambulance and would often use it to transport victims to hospital. I can remember three occasions when people were carried off nailed to pieces of wood. On two of those occasions the wood had to be cut down so that the doors would shut. And it wasn't even Easter.

 

[basil]

They also had an armoured security van.........

 

[John Marwood]

i seem to remember two schoolboys doing an armed raid wages snatch some 30 odd years ago too

but then i do have an appalling memory

 

[Gramaisc]

They also had an armoured security van.........

Wasn't it a Land Rover?

i seem to remember two schoolboys doing an armed raid wages snatch some 30 odd years ago too

but then i do have an appalling memory

There was a wages snatch around then, but how 'armed' it was I can't really remember either.

 

[basil]

I recall the land rover being battleship grew, and prior to blagging the payroll at the mri the young tearaway was faithfully delivering my daily newspaper via paddy diffin who had a shed to the rear of where the old wardstaff electrics shop is.......

 

[Gramaisc]

Indeed it was grey - and I suspected that you would have been involved at some level..

 

[basil]

As a paperboy he was most friendly and amiable i think he was back in town within 3-4yrs, i wonder what became of him?............

 

[Wyred]

Main works had a nurse.

Indeed, and 24hr cover as well. Their medical centre was just inside the st leonards gate for obvious reasons it was very close to the foundry.........

They even had their own ambulance and would often use it to transport victims to hospital. I can remember three occasions when people were carried off nailed to pieces of wood. On two of those occasions the wood had to be cut down so that the doors would shut. And it wasn't even Easter.

Been in it, 1982 when I nearly sliced my thumb off cutting polypropylene insulation.

 

[basil]

Main works had a nurse.

Indeed, and 24hr cover as well. Their medical centre was just inside the st leonards gate for obvious reasons it was very close to the foundry.........

They even had their own ambulance and would often use it to transport victims to hospital. I can remember three occasions when people were carried off nailed to pieces of wood. On two of those occasions the wood had to be cut down so that the doors would shut. And it wasn't even Easter.

Errm was sam holden involved in these events?.......

 

[stoofer34]

I removed the tip of a digit at Castle in 69
I went to SGI in a Moggy 1000
Skin graft of the forearm good as new!

some of the old Bagnalls blokes had various "chamfers"

G

 

[Gramaisc]

I removed the tip of a digit at Castle in 69
I went to SGI in a Moggy 1000
Skin graft of the forearm good as new!

some of the old Bagnalls blokes had various "chamfers"

G

1, Was it your own?
2, Two or four door?
3, Was it the same arm?