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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Photo of possible munitions factory WW1 Hayes
« on: Friday 20 March 15 13:27 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Boudicca95 on Sunday 12 October 14 12:12 BST (UK)
Hi everyone

I have attached a photo that shows my great aunt with some co workers. She is the one without a cap. I know she worked for HMV and I believe it was turned into a munitions filling station during WW1. I have found an old photo of the site on line and it seems to show lots of cabins with the same kind of chimney. It also shows workers with similar kind of caps.

Can anyone date this photo and/or confirm where I think it is?

Many thanks!

Well there was a National filling Factory in Hayes. Started in Oct 1915.Filling shell (18-pdr. to 12-in.), cartridges, and components.   

Also a factory making Aero engine parts, was Mitchell Shaw, under control of NFF.

My guess is your photo is the shell filling plant,  National filling Factory no7

Lots of detail here.  http://middx.net/articles/munitions.htm

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The Lighter Side / Re: What do you remember- seems impossible now
« on: Friday 20 March 15 12:24 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: KGarrad on Thursday 03 November 11 18:16 GMT (UK)
Quote from: mrs.tenacious on Thursday 03 November 11 18:08 GMT (UK)
The Black & White Minstrel Show.

That certainly does seem impossible now.

Except here in the Netherlands! ;D
Next 4 weeks will see Sinterclaas (St Nicholas) travelling around the country accompanied by Zwarte Piet (Black Pete).
Zwarte Piet is always blacked up, and very few people seem to mind?!

I had laughed at Morecambe and Wise for at least 40 years, then someone asked me did i think it was strange that the two guys were in bed together. I didn't until he mentioned it, and now it does seem strange but no-one seemed to think it was significant.

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The Lighter Side / Re: What do you remember- seems impossible now
« on: Friday 20 March 15 12:19 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: cati on Thursday 03 November 11 21:10 GMT (UK)
Quote from: meles on Thursday 03 November 11 18:16 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Winterbloom21 on Sunday 23 October 11 18:24 BST (UK)
Rissoles were the business - used to have those regularly at the cafe where we went for lunch from work.   I'm sure they were the same basic recipe as 'faggots', which my mother was a great fan of, but if they'd called them that on the menu I wouldn't have touched them!

Rissoles are minced beef and onions with a handful of breadcrumbs and an egg to bind it all together.

Faggots are minced offal with a handful of breadcrumbs and an egg. Wrapped up in cawl (the fat from a pig's abdomen).

I love both, but the latter are hard to find nowadays

meles

My local butcher sells faggots...


I took an American colleague shopping in Sainsburys. He found faggots in the freezer. One hour later he was still laughing, and talks about it to this day, some 20 years later.

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The Lighter Side / Re: What do you remember- seems impossible now
« on: Friday 20 March 15 12:16 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: janan on Thursday 23 June 11 17:39 BST (UK)
Quote from: alpinecottage on Wednesday 22 June 11 22:07 BST (UK)
In the haberdashery department of our local Coop, you gave the sales assistant the money and they put it into a small cylinder with the sales chitty and then put the cylinder into a pipe.  Compressed air took the cylinder to an upstairs office (I presume) where some clerk put the correct change into the cylinder and sent it back down to the sales assistant who then gave it to the customer.  This system made a lot of hissing and popping noises as you can imagine and as a 6 year old, I was fascinated.  I was really disappointed when they dismantled it  :'( :'(   ;D


Anyone remember the other sort of cash carriers that raced around the shop on overhead wires?

Jan ;)


The tube is a LAMSON tube. We had them in Pages dept store in Camberley High Street. My schoolpal used to put a soggy orange in the tube, press the button and send it to accounts! The day he sent a sandwich wrapped in greaseproof paper all hell broke loose.  A variant is still in use in some Tesco stores.

The overhead wires were something else. Again, OVERS of Camberley had these in their dept store in Camberley, next to the Odeon cinema on London Road, not far from the Duke of York pub.

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Berkshire / Re: Munitions factory Reading WW2
« on: Friday 20 March 15 12:03 GMT (UK)  »
Hello,

Sorry this is a bit late.

Wargrave (Opposite Marsh Mill on the A321) :  Underground Factory run by Sir George Godfrey and Partners making hydraulics and gearbox assemblies for the Phillips Master trainer. 30'000 sq ft of manufacturing space. Surface buildings ran as a private engineering works until early 1980's.   Underground space became a covert Army Communication Centre during Cold War. Now used for archive storage.
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/h/henley/

Warren Row:  Old chalk quarry converted to Underground factory made superchargers for aircraft engines. After 1958 became RSG6 until exposed by CND in the "Spies for Peace " debacle.

http://www.monkton-farleigh.co.uk/sc_warrenrow1.htm
Now a wine storage facility.

Theale: Was a Royal Ordnance Engineering Factory. I believe they made sten guns, and the 20mm shells which went to ROF Burghfield for assembly on the filling line.

Spitfire production:  Many garages, bus garages, car showrooms and some purpose built factories in the Reading and Newbury area were making components for Spitfires, which were assembled on the airfields at Aldermaston and Crazies Hill near Henley.

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