• Reference
    X941/2/1/89
  • Title
    Laporte News. Vol.8.No.6 House Magazine of the Laporte Group of Companies.
  • Date free text
    May 1970
  • Production date
    From: 1970 To: 1970
  • Scope and Content
    - Laporte Industries (Holdings) limited merges with Solvay & Cie, Brussels. - New phthalic anhydride plant at Stallingborough. - Eyam mines on film - Aluminium sulphate production at Widnes, with photos including David Roberts, George Thomas, Bill Deakin, Jack Gillan, Peter Doran< Billy Mash, Tex Graeber, Ken Hardman, Eddie Cullen. - 20th Anniversary of Warrington - Retirement of F.S.Clark, with details of his career at Luton, Stallingborough, Warrington and Bunbury, Australia, and photo. - Apprentices at Stallingborough (unnamed photo) - New managing director F.S.Poole, brief career history and photograph. - Photo of A.H.Mattinson, manager of sales control office in Dusseldorf. - Stallingborough photographic club win Maddra Trophy, with photo of B.Russell & R.White. - Photo of Christine Howard & Janice Hicks in the library at Stallingborough. - 25 Year club at Stallingborough; George Geoffrey Durrant, Jim Leighton, and Lou Firth 40 years Service, with photos. - Photo of Edna Colville presenting Rose Bowl golf trophy to Jack Simpson. - Presentation of safe driving awards at Ilford, with photograph of Sidney Rolph, Leonard Wratten, J.Simpson, Chief Inspector Wood, Jack Jones, Thomas Isbell. - Geoffrey Hickson presents safety award certificate to S.D.Durrant at Ilford. - 25 Year men at Redhill, with photos of L.N.Preston, Dennis William Gatland, Samuel Davis. - Wedding photos of Suzanne Purdy & Michael Royce, Linda Humphrey & George Reed. - Retirements of Alfred James Standing, Teddy Buck, Charlie Chapman, Alex McClean, Helen Foxcroft (photo), E.A.Rennison (photo), Thomas John Slade (photo). - Obituaries for Charles J.Ashdown & Leslie N.Richards. - Retirement of Reg Barlow & Albert Diley , with detailed career histories and photos. - Widnes 25 year club photo; Patrick Mahon, Joseph Greenhalgh, Alfred T.Clapham, William Hornby, Thomas Beggan, F.S.Poole, Arthur Billingsley, Victor Berry, Edward Wilton & John Kerr. - Widnes 40 year presentation to Bill Hornby. - Snooker final winners – photos of R.Donlan, L.Garnett, J.Gregory, E.P.Lettbridge, G.Jackson, J.Allen, R.Forshaw, B.Winstanley, E.Roberts, Bill Johnson, Walter Johnson. - Photo of David Farr, winner of National Schools Boxing championships. - Prize winners at Warrington – D.Dakin, D.G.Quinby & S.Price. - Feature on the boiler house at Warrington, with photos including Ben Lee, Fred Miller, Thomas Dagnall, G.Buckley, John Mullins. - Annual prize giving at Luton, photos including A.G.Bunker, K.M.Dear, G.R.King, G.W.Cherry, P.A.Rogers, M.A.Banks, P.J.Proctor, Michael Churchyard, R.E.Northam, Allan Clennett, Graham Burkitt, Dr E.J.G.Willing, Tony Pszenica, Mrs Willing, Tony Giliberti, Bob Boreham. - Desmond F Norman builds his own house at Eyam, with photo. - Photo of Denville Tibbles of Eyam with a model locomotive. - Wedding photos of Paul Roger Deakin & Patricia Eileen Hartle, Gordon Ellis & Enid M Bradshaw. - Retirements of Agnes Shepherd (photo), Walter Burns, W.J.Horsfall (photo), John Roberts. Retirement photos of W.A.Done & J.Moss.