A photograph of the Harker family celebrating the company’s 100 year anniversary in 1978.
Photograph and details courtesy of Mike Bellerby.
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A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
A photograph of the Harker family celebrating the company’s 100 year anniversary in 1978.
Photograph and details courtesy of Mike Bellerby.
Hello Norman, it is fantastic to see this and all the good people I knew from 1968-1973. I doubt if you remember me but if you recall I gave you an old bike of mine for your boys. I hope you and your family are well and you are enjoying your retirement, best wishes. Ivor
Hello Ivor, I remember you, hope you are keeping well, I retire very shortly doesn’t time fly?
They certainly have Ben, Malcolm Harker used to love to say to the workforce at meetings how all the big engineering on Teesside had finished & they were still trading, but he eventually sold most of his specially designed machines for turbine work to China then bailed out, the factory is partly used by a Scottish firm K.R.G. Industries.
Harkers Engineering was one of the top class small sub Contractors on Teesside with a reputation for quality engineering products, servicing the major Teesside Engineering companies that are now only a part of History, Have Harkers gone the same way as their illustrious big brothers, and disappeared off the face of the earth, with Mrs Thathchers destruction of the North East as a productive and World Class Engineering area responsible for a major part of the Industrial Revolution that transformed Great Britain into such a World Power in the early nineteenth Century?
Well said Ben Brown!
Benny is in hospital in Melbourne having surgery on his existing replacement knee this week, so I don’t think he will see your comment Mary, I will advise him when he gets out, he hopes in about a weeks time.
Lets hope Benny makes a swift recovery from his latest setback Gran and is back with his comments on this site soon. Is Mary Bowater the late Morris’s wife?, because Morris’s company on the Teesside Industrial Estate was another good local sub-contractor to engineering, employing a number of his old Head Wrightsons, Middlesbrough colleagues, Alf Maidmen, Bill Walton and Ronnie Jennings to name a few.