• Reference
    X941/2/1/88
  • Title
    Laporte News. Vol.8.No.5 House Magazine of the Laporte Group of Companies.
  • Date free text
    Dec 1969
  • Production date
    From: 1969 To: 1969
  • Scope and Content
    - Titanium Dioxide by Laporte at Stallingborough - Use of Fullbent used in construction of the Victoria Line London Underground. - Catalyst tablets made at Laporte Widnes - Fullers Earth & the Roman occupation - 11 years of hydrogen peroxide production at Warrington, with photos of staff including E.Clarke, C.Maddox, E.Collins, A.Evans, W.Seed, E.Sullivan. - New computer system at Stallingborough, with photos of Mrs A.Walsh, J.L.Thurman, W.E.Cole, R.H.Hill, E.R.Blakeman, P.S.Pike, G.Midgley. - New plant at Redhill. - Ferric Chloride production at Castleford. - Electron Microscopy at Stallingborough - New office block at Luton. - New clubhouse at Stallingborough, with photo of G.H.Maddra pulling pint for F.S.Clark.- Miss Laporte Stallingborough; photo of Carol Sparkes (3rd), Mrs C.M.W.Orpen (judge), Lesley Hollanby (2nd), Ann Smith, winner, and C.M.W.Orpen. - Stallingborough Halloween party pictures including W.F.Beardley, E.Egan, R.Gunn, J.Townsend, P.R.White, J.E. Broughton, J.S.Broughton, Ted Highfield, F.S.Clark, B.White, H.Evans, B.Russell. - Awards to first aiders at Stallingborough: H.Stanhope, N.Near, A.Clay, G.Andrews, M.P.Draycott, P.C.Smart, T.Williams, A.Atkin, A.Frary, E.Smalley, A.Simpson, R.Williams, B.Curtis, F.Vincent, D.S.White, H.Sylvester, J.Cook, J.Howe, C.M.W.Orpen, M.P.Draycott. - Apprentices at Stallingborough, photo including Capt.Ridgway, Howard Platt, Jim Allen, Graham Hanslip, Ian Dalgetty, Dennis Ironman, Pat Lamming, Paul Roberts, Len Sibbick. - Retirement (with photos) of Edward John Brown, William Thomas Cosham, Frederick Sydney Bursby, Thora E Nicholls, James Anthony Woodhouse, Edward George Coppard, Richard Colgate, Anthony Alexander, Redhill. - Wedding photos of Peter Lakin & Susan Banks, V.L.Ridall & Judith Hancock, John Sims & Carol Elliot, B.Judd & Y.P.Johnson, Anthony W.Booker & Carol Salter, B.A.Eaton & Gwen Clarkson, D.Garthwaite & Jackie Highfield, Les Foreman & Brenda Stokes. - Obituaries for Frank Harbron, Roy Bloomfield, Ronald Nuttall, L.H.D.Acland, Edgar Alfred Andrews. - New canteen at Widnes, with photos including John Hill, A.O’Connor. - Widnes Research Cricket team photo; F.Buckingham-Evans, P.Bridson, B.Jones, A.W.Miller, P.Howard, B.Parkey, C.R.Bean, S.Sunderland, M.Wells, P.Taggart, N.Clarke. - Widnes Transport Cricket Team photo; J.Rourke, R.Roberts, B.Gill, K.Jones, R.Leedham, I.Baskerville, P.Brown, H.Wilson, E.Potter, J.Stonehouse. - Widnes Schoolboy boxers photo; R.Everard, D.Furr, J.Dyas. - Winners of Widnes bowling tournament: G.Warren, T.Jordan, A.Thomas, E.Wilton, K.Nevitt. - Photos of prize winners Sid Brown & George Warren - Widnes Retirements (with photos) of William Bevan, Hector Codling, Frank Dennett, W.Yarwood, Jack P. Cleary, Harry Williams, Joseph Moss, Harry Pennington, William G.Howard, J.E.Phillips, Percy H.Ball, Edith Hamlett, W.Alan Done. - Warrington Retirements; John Richard Lyons, Henry John Batchelor, Lewis Shaw, Robert Holcroft. - Luton Retirements: Sam Chinnock, Patrick Nolan, Ernest Stanley Conquest, Hilda Abrahams, W.S.Wilson, Ernest C.Mitchell, Gertrude Plover, Joan Madeleine Neal, V.J.Chalkley, Charles Frederick Allicker, George Alfred Jefferys. - Photos including Molly Bird, William Huckle, Ernie Hadden, Sid Herbert, Lord Hill, Douglas Anthony, D.E.Loomes, P.Tompkinson, J.R.Lyons, H.J.Batchelor, D.Russell, J.S.Ashton, W.S.Wilson, V.Chalkley. - Photo of Ted Megswell of Tidewell with a stone carving. - Photo of Thomas B.Carter, former zoo keeper. - Wedding photos of George Cullen & Anne Ruane, Graham Beswick & Susan Anne Litherland, Phil Barnett & Susan Sweeney, Philip Charles Rylance & Shirley Brenda Melia, Tony Bishop & Barbara Littlewood. - Obituaries for P.H.Burgon, J.Parkes, J.F.Cogley, James Newbury.
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