Stafford Switchgear Historical Society.

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Nick Stanway

He had a very particular skill that was probably world-leading, although I suspect that there's little call for it....

 

[Northend Boy]

Thats Jonathon in the red and white teashirt at the back standing next to Nick Stanway. Im sure im on there somewear but i cant see it.
The chap in front of John cant remember his name but he was a nice chap got himself fired from what i recall

The chap in question is Jason Cooper he now works for Scheinder Electrics.

 

[Northend Boy]

Can anyone name some of the people on the photograph.

 

[Northend Boy]

He had a very particular skill that was probably world-leading, although I suspect that there's little call for it....

What was it or is it too disgusting to mention.

 

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What was it or is it too disgusting to mention.

He could belch at a level that was loud enough to damage low-flying aircraft.

 

[gilbert grape]

Can anyone name some of the people on the photograph.

Clive Wright, Cyril Bird, John Horne, Alan Bliss, Derek Pinches, Cyril Moore, Bill Titley, Marshall Monks, Phil Armishaw, Brian Williams, John Chester, Mick Voss, John Mathews, Ant Owen, John Humble, Roger Snell, John Nadel, John Souster?, Caroline Lewis, Vic Roeton, Ken James, Paul Thomas, Steve Wain, Dave Hurst,Dave Luck, Trevor Sleight, Richard Thompson, Mark Grant, Alan Rees, John Ferguson, Phil Nelson, Gordon Hall,, John Mulrooney, Dave De Luca Bossa, John McCluskie, - - - then it gets a bit fuzzy.

 

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Wyn Bowen, Brian Morley, Paul Bakewell, Ken Abell, Phil Armishaw, Alan Kavanagh, Mark Furber, Surinder, O.C. - etc....

 

[stoofer34]

A few more...

Paula Butler,Charlie Brown, Tim Rowlinson,Steve Knox ,Patrick Coope, Joanne Humble, Jim Gibbons,
Fran Turnbull, Tiadad Boromerand,John Turner

.........................Me

S

 

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Tiadad Boromerand,

Actually, it's Tirdad Boroomand, I believe.

..will always be Teabag Boomerang, though..

 

[stoofer34]

good guess lol

S

 

[Birdies_best_mate]

At the back Nick Stanway , ian Frazier also Jason Smith , Jim Cooke third person up to the left of Cyril Moore just see the top of his head, haircut unmistakable.

 

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Has anybody seen Ian Fraser lately? I've been looking out for him for a while - last I heard, he was living in Highfields.

 

[gilbert grape]

John Mulroney and Bill Finlayson just been identified!

 

[Northend Boy]

Rachel White and Jeff Troland ? I drove all night.

 

[LongGoneFarAway]

Is Charlie Brown still about. Also what was the name of the Blind Chap the Cyril Bird used to bring in and take home think he used to work in the machine shop..

That was Phil Hill, all round nice guy and big Ella Fitzgerald fan. He married Mick Voss's sister Olive. He loved to get out for a pint or two and always made me laugh when he said if he wanted to get blind drunk he had a head start over the rest of us!

 

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I've just been to see Taffy - he's back in Stafford now, the Stroke Unit off Ward 10. He's picking up, but there's a long way to go - not able to speak very well or get about on his own, but still pathologically cheerful, as ever - and able to look out the window of the RAF, which is why he ended up here in the first place.

 

[LongGoneFarAway]

I was informed yesterday that Gordon Sadler has left us - so, no more Hawkeye, although I suspect that he will have criticised the welding on the gates on the way in...

This is going back a little but does anyone remember the inspector Ron Lovegrove (I think that was his name)?
I remember as an apprentice, working under Taffy Price, I went into his little office and leaned on his surface plate with a very greasy hand. He damn near tore my arm off and beat me with the bloody stump.

 

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This is going back a little but does anyone remember the inspector Ron Lovegrove (I think that was his name)?
I remember as an apprentice, working under Taffy Price, I went into his little office and leaned on his surface plate with a very greasy hand. He damn near tore my arm off and beat me with the bloody stump.

As soon as you said his name I knew what you were going to say about him, he loved that lump of Swedish granite. He claimed to have especially dry skin, so he could touch it, but mere mortals did it at risk of death.

 

[Birdies_best_mate]

Always wondered what happened to Wayne cant remember his last name i remember he was a co boss in the green room . Also Ian Nevay , Terry cant remember his surname was the quickest and neatest wireman iv ever come across he became a co boss alongside Ken James. Andy McBurnie , i remember when he and another chap had a major accident in the greenroom getting blown off a scaffold when working on a pressurised tank.
Also anyone see anything of jack he was a wireman lived in rugeley Vic Roetons best mate at the time

 

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Wayne Aldritt - still about, lives in Stone, I think.

Terry Lees? - ended up as a foreman with Butch.

Andy's still there - it was Steve Walsh that was with him when the explosion occurred. A quite plausible series of events that took some understanding, even when you knew what had happened....

Vic has been instructed to be there at the piss-up on Friday, I'll try to remember to ask him.