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Guest Message by DevFuse
 

Does anyone remember Stamina Dog Food factory in Baxters Lane


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#16 OFFLINE   DJGAZZA

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Posted 01 July 2011 - 12:47 AM

We've have started storing goods in one of the warehouses there. I asked my Manager if he could get me permission to go in the old canteen and the flat where my grandma and grandad used to live. If he does I'll take a camera and get some pictures

Edited by DJGAZZA, 01 July 2011 - 12:48 AM.



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Posted 20 November 2011 - 05:08 PM

In the 50s i worked as second man waggon and trailer,for a firm called J C WALSH ( PORTICO )
wasnt it called BRIGHTSM ( STAMINA FOODS LTD , we used to take there products to the docks

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Posted 24 January 2012 - 01:03 PM

My mum,dad and two of my aunties worked there in the sixties.

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Posted 24 January 2012 - 01:46 PM

i worked for an haulage firm we used to take all the export boxes to the docks#
the firms was J C WALSH ,PORTICO,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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Posted 24 January 2012 - 02:48 PM

I had some mates who went there in the late 1960s, they were fitters and electricians from Clock Face colliery which had shut down. One of them was Johnny Hitchmough anyone remember him.
Talk about smelly places of work, I worked at the Davyhulme sewage works for 4 years, designing the renewing of the High voltage distribution amongst other projects, and everywhere stank ... but some of the Pump Rooms where really bad





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