Pickering’s Centenary Celebrations – Works Erection & Maintenance Departments February 12th 1954. Photograph courtesy of Ray Buck. 
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Pickering’s Centenary Celebrations – Works Erection & Maintenance Departments February 12th 1954. Photograph courtesy of Ray Buck.
My Mother has a copy of this picture, it shows my Dad, Denis Moody front row kneeling third from the right, he worked for Pickerings for 45 years in the electric shop making lift controllers.
Yes Peter I remember you well you are of course a lot younger then!! and a lot of the others featured in the photograph, also a lot that came after.
I am pleased you found this photo Ray. I had one but can’t find it. I am the person blocking out the no4 on the 1854 sign on the back row. I know a lot of the people mentioned in the various comments. Frank Waddington if I’m right is the tall grey haired chap in the middle of the photo. Harry Walker again if I’m right is squatted down middle front row.I was at Pickerings for 46 years from 1952 to 1998.I could mention lots of people I have worked with, too many for this site. Anyway good luck to all.
I can just see myself with my partner Joan Wallace standing next to Dave Small and his wife Hazel who became my in laws later the next year.
This was one of the photographs rescued from a skip in City Road, London at the time of the refurbishment of the London office.
Albert Russell eventually took charge of the pattern shop, Ken Stephenson the Joiners Shop, Tom Newbold was in the Mechanical Drawing Office and moved on I think it was to Heads, I was Mech DO as an apprentice, then had the dubious honour to teach the apprentices, all 7 of them, Mr Crosby was Chief Draughtsman on his retirement Mr White took the role, Norman Dixon I remember well he kept a few sheep out at Thorpe Arch, I bought a couple off him when he had them slaughtered.
Do any of the old Pickering’s lads remember Alan Craddock he was at first in the Pattern Shop? then moved to the Mech DO and was killed on, what was then, the Portrack roundabout in 1963 on his way to look at the possibility of buying a house in Middlesbrough as he was about to get married. He lived in Cottersloe Road ,Norton, he was an old Trinity boy and an excellent woodworker, he made a lectern in oak for the school before he left.