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Old 02-04-2004, 17:01   #31
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Re: Ewbank carpet sweepers

Im think I remember Ewbank being there and also my mum having a sweper,seem to recall it being a lemon yellow colour and not massively efficient!
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Old 03-04-2004, 21:43   #32
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Re: Ewbank carpet sweepers

My mum used to work at Google Page Rankingestige, and she worked on the ewbank sweepers and people used to smuggle parts out and then build them over a period of time, no wonder they went bust.
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Old 26-04-2007, 21:58   #33
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I am late in finding this thread. It was my great grandfather, Richard Walton Kenyon, whose firm Entwisle & Kenyon made the Ewbank Carpet Sweeper. They operated from Ewbank Works behind Cannon Street and St James Street and made the ewbank manmgle, Ewbank Ladder etc before the sweeper which was to become "The Ewbank". See RWK's osn account on the Tivewton museum 'Virtual Victorians' website, or contact me for more recent information.
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Old 26-04-2007, 22:10   #34
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There you go -all you need to know 'straight from the horses mouth'!!
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Old 26-04-2007, 22:21   #35
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me mam worked at ewbank from just after the war until its demise, i also did for a spell in the 60s, (best canteen in accy)
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Old 26-04-2007, 22:43   #36
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My Mum worked there too Cashman - maybe they knew each other.
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Old 27-04-2007, 13:28   #37
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My Mum worked there too Cashman - maybe they knew each other.
knocking bet that willow,me mam,knew everybody.
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Old 27-04-2007, 13:31   #38
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Old 27-04-2007, 16:21   #39
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To Cashman and Willow.... Your Mams would have known 'Mr Maxwell' and 'Mr James', my grandfather and my Uncle.
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