pv83:
Ray Smyth:
Sparrows Crane Hire were on the Lower Bristol Road in the Twerton area of Bath in Somerset.
A relative of mine, Marion Brown, nee Nowell, worked for Sparrows in the office. Her husband,
Vic Brown was a parcels van driver for British Railways, based at Midland Bridge Road, on the site of
what was Bath Green Park station, the northern end of the former Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway.
The site has been occupied by Sainsbury`s for many years. Ray Smyth.peterm:
That’s what you call a crane truck. I wonder how wide it was.Cheers for the info Ray, weren’t they at some point the biggest crane hire company in the UK?
Most mobile cranes have a max. width of 3m peterm, not sure about the older ones though…
Cheers, Patrick
Thanks Patrick. Hard to tell from the photo, but I wouldn’t fancy taking it through Rotherhithe tunnel. 