This is a photograph of my Grandmother Florence Hodgson (back row, far left) and her workmates at Ashmores, Stockton. Is there anyone you recognise?
Photograph and details courtesy of Paul Dunning
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Does anyone remember Syd Dwyer? my grandad
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I worked there in the 1960s with Peter Finn I worked with many tradespeople he was one of the best
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My dad worked at Ashmore and Whesso his name was Robert Williams (ginger Bob) would love to see more photo. I can remember going into the tool shop as a kid.
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My Dad “Peter Purchase” had many fond memories of your Dad and thought highly of him. Was he Foreman /Chargehand Slinger? I know my Dad heard he got a job with Harkers Engineering when Whessoe’s closed in 1978. Apart from that I cannot say anymore. But I certainly recognised the name or rather the nickname.
My Dad thought very highly of Ashmores and I spent many a meal time listening to the many stories he told me, of the Work and the Characters. I would find it very difficult to pinpoint where the South Stockton works once stood, the area has changed so much.
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Looked in vain for a familiar face, as there once were three of my cousins, Margaret, Jesse, and Anne significantly propping up the office staff at one point in their careers, reinforced by their father Percy and brother, David, immersed in the manufacturing end of the business. And then there was my wife-to-be as a secretary to cap it all off, who made lifelong friends whilst there, including “her” engineering group from the U.S. of A. involved in the design-build of a chemical plant destined for India.
What would Ashmores have done without this family? Ha! Ha!
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Anne’s husband Tommy Moss worked there as well somewhere I think I still have some concorde magazines. David
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Hi. My mum Sylvia Dover worked there. Does anyone remember her. Regards Sandra Dover
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I worked at Ashmores from 1961 to 1970 first as a messenger girl then in the planning department and finally in the Data Prep as a punch girl happy days.
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I worked at Ashmores/Power Gas from 1958 till it closed. I was in the Print Room and my father Ron Close was a clerk in the Electrical drawing office. Loved it there.
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Hi Pam,
Best wishes for Christmas & New Year!
Steph
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So Pam you started at Power Gas the same year as I did, 1958.. Yes I do remember you, and your father Ron too…
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