[keith]

The lad involved in the shed incident father was a lorry driver who for a while worked for the firm who took over the sheds from british rail that firm being jacks motors which was part of the gilbraith group this was well after the lads fall, as quite a lot of money was spent on making the building waterproof the first thing was of course the roof the second was a 25ton crane as part of the space was for platt saco lowell exports jacks had the contract for all there storage and export transport The third job was the floor as the train lines had to be taken up a firm from rishton did most of the work except the crane that was done by the firm that built the crane morris then an established crane maker Two years in a lot of the space was taken by a firm called TAR RESIDUALS who imported all sorts of chemicals and powders most of it coming through preston docks ask any one who lived in the vicinity about the queue of wagons along charter street For a few years it wa kept pretty full then came the demise of platts and then chemicals started coming in containers that was the beginning of the end TAR RESIDUALS bought part of a dock at goole hey presto there we where gone shut down it is know owned by a steel firm