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Glass Works, Platt Bridge

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Christmas shutdown
Christmas shutdown
Photo: Russ Robie
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Item #: 6553
This is (L to R) Billy Reid scratching as usual, and my dad Dennis Robie in the furnace cabin doing safety cover through christmas sometime late 70's early 80's. Notice the jam jars on the desk that we all used to brew up in !

Comment by: sweeney + cleggy on 1st August 2008 at 00:58

hi russ wish it was still open . time for a reunion party eh

Comment by: russ robie on 8th August 2008 at 20:13

Yea, happy days, i'd go back tomorrow if they rebuilt it. defo time for a reunion party. lets sort sumat out eh ?

Comment by: wendy on 10th February 2010 at 21:47

Does anyone know if Kathleen Crompton worked here?

Comment by: Colin Barnes on 31st January 2012 at 14:41

Apart from George Brockbank Billy Reed wert laziest mon int world ,but he had a heart o gold

Comment by: shaun power on 7th March 2012 at 06:56

all my family worked at glass works my gran mary power,my grandad ste power, my dad paul power,and my uncle tony power my gran worked in the canteen

Comment by: mark wilcock on 27th August 2013 at 23:27

my grandad joe wilcock,my dad keith wilcock and my brother martin wilcock all worked here.....

Comment by: John Bannister on 31st March 2022 at 20:58

BIlly Reid my uncle. Cant believe I only just found these pics after all these years. My dad john Bannister used to work there with my future father in law Jimmy fraine. Does any one know which bit my dad worked in ? He used to talk about cartooning? Wonder if anyone has pics of the area

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