TAKING a break from producing machinery to help farmers feed postwar Britain are fitters from Leigh engineering firm Harrison, McGregor and Guest. The Albion foundry was a hive of industry producing a famous range of farming implements.
This photograph sent in by Lowton reader Roy Gaskell at Easter 1949 shows a happy band of workers who had emerged in to the Spring sunshine.
Roy, (pictured standing, left) of Church Lane, was a fitter at the Albion from 1941 to 1950, and 50 years ago took his trusty box camera to work.
He and workmates Joe Hilton, George Green, Joe Apsden, Bill Dickinson, Peter Howard, Lawrence Lee, Jimmy Kelly, Alf Marsh, Ronnie Cleworth, Arthur Atherton, Kenny Hall, Tommy Rothwell and Harry Bailey had been fitting knotter assemblies to the back of binding machines.
Keen bandsman Mr Gaskell later left to spend 28 years at Sutcliffe Speakman.
Spinning Jenny Way nowadays runs right across what was the middle of the old HMG building.
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