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Miscellaneous documents

Reference: D/X 2252 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Consett Iron Company dinner event

Covering Dates: 1946-2003

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  • Miscellaneous documents
    • Consett Iron Company (Ref: D/X 2252)
    • Dinner event, Christmas 1946 (Ref: D/X 2252/1-3)

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Consett Iron Company (Ref: D/X 2252)Dinner event, Christmas 1946 (Ref: D/X 2252/1-3)Ref: D/X 2252/1

Photograph of Consett Iron Company staff dinner event, Christmas 1946 Front row left to right: H V Tomlinson, Works Manager Harold Boot, Assistant General Manager Ralph Alsop, General Manager Frank George, Assistant Works Manager Harold Bell, Melting Shop Manager Middle row, left to right: unknown clerk Jim Barnet, Melting Shop Manager's Clerk Johnty Postle, Assistant Shift Manager Syd McKenzie, Casting Bay Foreman Jack Hay, Shift Manager Shotton Blench, Shift Manager Bob Purvis, Shift Manager Bill Dawson, recently retired Shift Manager Wilkie Scott, Assistant Melting Shop Manager Eric Amos, Assistant Shift Manager Tom Firth, Shift Manager Bill Ridgeway, recently retired Shift Manager Back row left to right: Jack Surtees (?), Foreman Bricklayer Charlie Brown, Clerk/Timekeeper Bill Dixon, Foreman over all day turn labourers Wilf ?, Clerk/Timekeeper unknown Clerk/Timekeeper Cliff Preston, Assistant Shift Manager Dick Robson, Assistant Shift Manager
(1 photograph, 15cm x 10cm, black and white)

Ref: D/X 2252/2

Letters from Shotton Blench, former Provincial Grand Master of Herefordshire [Masons], Hereford to 'Brother' Chris [George] giving details of the dinner event photograph and information about the men in the photograph and their role in Consett Iron Company, and views on the Company's production methods, 7-22 April 2003
(7 papers)

Ref: D/X 2252/3

Letter from Christopher [George], Hereford, to [his brother] Tony and Margaret enclosing the photograph D/X 2252/1 and giving details of Shotton Blench, 1 May 2003
(1 paper)



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