The second image shows how bad
the original is - I just have to display it as it is probably the worst I have
had a go at.
Firstly,
from the Don Matthews collection, is an image dating from about 1940.
This Drawing Office was evidently situated within the factory and not the main
offices to where it was relocated probably in the early 1950's.
The second image shows how bad
the original is - I just have to display it as it is probably the worst I have
had a go at.
Pencilled
on the back of the picture is:
Left
side; L to R: is Norman Stopps, Alf Hill, Dave Breeze, Bert Green & Tom
Strong (though unless there were two Tom Strong's this is a case of mistaken
identity; see here).
Right side; Foreground: Brian Hough, Far Background: Unknown, Near Background: Dave
Pearson.
Between: Bill
Pearson with Ann Daniell.
Ann
Daniell was Alf Hill's sister-in-law and she worked at Park Royal as a tracer
throughout WW2 and into the 1950's.
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These two images kindly sent in by Ian McLellan-Smith, are of the Drawing Office staff in March 1967 (see the PRVdesign Group page).
Pictured here from left to right
are: Glen Mountney, Denis (from C.H. Roe), John Bland, Eric Jones, Ian McLellan-Smith,
Doug Redfern
(sitting), Bert Durham, Bill Rees, Alf Hill [my father (Ed.)], Mr Barnard (Barney), Charlie Babbs
(sitting), Bert Butler, Bill Pearson & Charlie Roberts.
Pictured in the bar after work
from left to right & clockwise are: Kathy (from the print room), Minnie (one of the office
cleaners), Gitte Petersen (from Denmark), working on the Stockholm contracts. [and
yes I know Stockholm is the capital of Sweden. Ed.], Denis
(from C.H. Roe), Charlie Babbs, Ian McLellan-Smith (holding up
pint), Doug Redfern, Bert Durham, Charlie Roberts, Bill Rees, Eric Jones, Glen Mountney and back to Kathy.
(If anyone can identify others' in these pictures I'll be pleased to know. Ed.)
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