Industrial Memories

Jim Garrett recalls his apprenticeship and career with Singer’s in Frome and the improvements in pay and working conditions over that time read more

Ray Trowbridge tells us about his apprenticeship at Parsons in Trowbridge and working at Wallington Weston, before starting out on his own read more

Jim Wykes remembers Nott’s Industries at Merchants Barton in Frome, where he started as an toolmaker. Nott’s manufactured Carley floats read more

Daisy Bane remembers how she enjoyed her work as a young employee at Houston’s cloth mill, where her job was to set up the looms read more

Ian Spearing talks about his carpentry and joinery training with Hodder and Sons where he learnt skills which included coffin making and coach building read more

Cliff Ellis describes his mother’s work for Hillman’s and tells how Donald Hillman expanded the business over time read more

Allan Fairhurst tells us of his work at Bray’s Press which later became Ellenbray Press and is now a well-known shop in the centre of Frome read more

Georgina Phillips started working for Roads Reconstruction but then had a family. When her son was ten she went to work for Cuprinol read more

John Stocker looks back to his working time at Cockey’s Iron Works and tells how his father drove the crane that poured red hot metal into the casts read more

Muriel Chapman looks back at her time at Butler and Tanner where she started work in 1929 and was employed in the bindery departement read more