[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Ianto.W.

Dead on Willow it was the early 50s, we had lodgers from Simon Carves who did a lot of the steelwork. Many of the people who worked on it stayed in Accrington and have families here.

When I was an apprentice at Lang Bridges, we made a lot of patterns & castings for Simon Carves, Cheadle Heath, Stockport.
I put that name on many a pattern.
They were mainly for the coal crushing plant to feed the boilers.
That would be in the early 1950's.
Retlaw.
Just reread the thread, and I've already quoted on it once