A group photograph taken at the Christmas Dinner Dance for British Refraisal of Stillington later to be renamed Darchem Chemicals Company. The Workforce at Refraisal was mainly from the Stockton and District Area. Refraisal was the local company who supplied all the Insulation materials and panels for the Concorde Super Sonic Plane in the in the late sixties..
Left to right: Dave Kennedy – Sheet metal and chemical cleaning section, Flossie Kennedy, Della Trotter – worked for the Fenney Brush Company for many years in Stockton as their secretary and Norman Trotter – General Foreman for Holst the large Civil Engineering Company who built most of the Large Water Cooling Towers for ICI in the Billingham and Wilton works.
Photograph and details courtesy of Ben Brown.
Norman managed a staff of over 100 site workers doing all sorts of odd jobs even helping out with the wages payroll on occasions. I remember one job he asked me to help in was to polish a floor that had just been laid in the British Titan works in Stockton . We worked late into the night and finished the job in the early hours. I do not think the modern day Managers would be expected to do this sort of work to get the job finished.