PAUL WINDER AND SOME MEMORABILIA

Good afternoon, here's a last image of the Brewery seen through the eyes of the young Paul Winder, visiting his mum in the office...and with it a couple of images of souveniers. 

The Beer mats come from Rachel Smith whose Nanna worked in the Bottling shop, we hope to hear more from Rachels Nanna.. the pumphead and ashtray come from Peter Butler in Calgary while the bar towell is with  Peter Thompson in Massachusetts.  

And now over to Paul Winder..

"..My Dad was very friendly with Eric Simpson who was, I understand, the head honcho in those days. One of dad's favourite days was when Eric took him to the cricket at Old Trafford and introduced him to Freddie Truman. 

I used to go with mum when she cleaned the offices in the evening. It was all under the pretext of doing my homework though not much got done. I would sit in Eric Simpson's office and marvel at the section of "Bluebird" which had been retrieved from the bottom of Coniston lake following Donald Campbell's I'll fated water speed record attempt. Sometimes mum would give me a drink of soda water from the syphon which resided close to the desk. 

Hartley Smith also worked there at the time and I sometimes sat in his office for a change of scenery! "

Thanks again Paul for another lovely image of the day-to- day at Hartley's.

And finally...Derek Preston and Eric Shaw have been in touch about Nigel Saul's photograph in our last post.

The feller cleaning the copper  (bottom right here) is Bob Fawcett. Bob was Dereks uncle who lived on Morecambe Road. Derek is passing the photo onto Bob's daughter in Australia. 

What a great result. 

Thanks for getting in touch, lads.

John