Frankydobo:
Hi Franky. Did your mate go by a nickname of La or Lar
Tyneside
I couldn’t say Tyneside but I don’t think so, he’d worked for the Fire Service a lot of years and possibly since leaving Cawthorn’s, I haven’t seen him though since he retired about five years ago. Franky.
Franky
Been trying to think of the timeline here, Cawthorns were taken over by Hargreaves somewhere in the seventies possibly around the time the photo was taken.At that time they were based at the r/bout on TVTE. Leyland Motors owned the depot next door to Armstrong Cork. Leyland pulled out and Hargreaves moved into the vacated depot and closed the old place at the r/bout.
I know the lad we are talking about still worked there at that time, and was a charge hand on the back shift which worked 4.00pm - midnight. He left to work for the Fire Service late seventies. IIRC the workshop was somewhere along South Shore Road.
Tyneside