4gee the thing is there wasn't a plate works there it was Jimmy Milne been the entrapanour of his time,really clever guy for his time so I was told. Sorry about the spelling..

Yeah it was Jimmy Millne's plate works. I'm told it was quite a large operation at the time. His bikes were made there beforehand. I'm going to split this so as not to hijack Maggiel's topic

The Boss wrote:  "I'm going to split this so as not to hijack Maggiel's topic."

 

Where do we find Magg's split?

4g you were right my dad worked in the bike shop before he did his national service

Yep

Where is the 'topic that this was split from?'

Look at Tonyp's picture in the Gallery" Me mam advertising" and then the Link that has been added by Fourgee in the comment section below said pic.

This topic was split from http://www.bedlington.co.uk/community/topic/5593-reston-nee-metcalfe/

Someone will have to explain this a little more to me; where, and when, and what are we talking about? All sounds very interesting.

Someone will have to explain this a little more to me; where, and when, and what are we talking about? All sounds very interesting.

 

http://www.bedlington.co.uk/community/gallery/image/1698-me-mam-advertising/

 

Only difficult if you don't glance at the piccies at the top of the current board index page!

 

Tony's mum was called Sylvia, and - if my infant memory isn't addled - was a quite stunning red-head, and quite a personality in the town!  I suspect she may feature in other group pictures that have been posted. If I'm wrong here then someone will surely prove this right in the course of time.

 

Anyway, Tony's family, in common with other's in Bedlington, knew more about making bicycles than just about anywhere else in the UK.  Making real things featured heavily in the town's economy before WWII, and for a bit over a decade after.  During the war they supplied the forces who sent Bedlington bikes all over the World. They still turn up in barns and foreign fields. Interestingly, they also produced the components for those sectional Bailey Bridges you see in the war films.  I think Billy Scott - Scotts Engineering Works - up the bank behind the former Elliott's Garage - also contributed here, and there was a good deal of mutual exchange of engineering services.

Ah, so the Terrier Plate Works was about steel fabrication and light engineering and not about ceramics.  I had visions of crates full of teapots, cups and saucers and gravy boats, all packed in straw, being carted down to the Station and humped onto trains for the start of the long journey across the Empire.

 

Has anybody collated any of this information/history?  This is the first I've heard about it and would love to discover more.

 

Oops, I've just looked at that advert for the Plate Works ... they were making plates!  But were they ceramic or repousse metalwork ... hard to work-out from the ad.

Edited December 22, 201411 yr by Symptoms

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