oiltreader:
Sparrows rings a bell, was in digs in Grangemouth 1958 with a couple of their guys who were involved setting up a crane system, either in the docks or refinery. They’ve come a long way since 1946.
sparrowsgroup.com/about-us.html
Oily
Last of the founding brothers passes on and with a very interesting tale of how they began and progressed.
bathnewseum.com/2016/06/08/end- … ther-dies/
Hi Eddie, I have just read the above… Sparrows of Bath, and it turned up some interesting information.
My mother was born in Bath in 1918, and at an early age, she was orphaned, and was adopted by
Stan and Anne Nowell who lived at Shophouse Road in Twerton, where Gordon Sparrow was born.
As children, me and my brothers knew them as Aunty Anne & Uncle Stan, their own daughter, Marion,
worked for most of her life in the office at Sparrow Crane Hire, not far away on the Lower Bristol Road.
Marion married Vic Brown, who was a van driver with British Railways at Bath Green Park Station,
the Northern terminus of the former Somerset And Dorset Joint Railway.
Regards, Ray.