Reference
Z1816/1
Title
Photograph album given to William Edward Aitken when he left Igranic Electric Co Ltd having been company secretary for 10 years
Date free text
October 1958
Production date
From: 1958 To: 1958
Mr Aitken's daughter, Sue Underhill.
Scope and Content
The identifications given in the following descriptions are those made by the donor, Mr Aitken's daughter.
Pages 1, 7, 13, 19, 25, 31, 39, 47, 55, 63 are used for the signatures of Mr Aitken's colleagues at Igranic.
Page 3 aerial view of the Igranic Electric Company factory, Bedford from the south.
Page 5. Group photograph of heads of detachments and managers, Oct 1951. Front row 2nd right W E Aitken, 3rd right Miss Barber, 6th right Mr Paice, 7th Mr Russell-Tayler, centre Mr Fleming.
Page 9 a female typist at a typewriter.
Page 11 View of typists' room.
Page 15 view of main entrance and office building.
Page 17 W E Aitken making a presentation to another man.
Page 21 View of Igranic office block.
Page 23 View of general office? showing male and female workers at desks, some with typewriters, others filing.
Page 27 Mr Fleming shaking hands with another man probably Richard Swift following a presentation.
Page 29 Children's Christmas Party view of children seated at tables - one of the children is Mr Aitken's daughter.
Page 33 Presentation to J R Morgan.
Page 35 Three women and two men at a party - they are wearing party hats and there are other similar hats on the table in front of them.
Page 37 Group photograph of eight men and two women. Mr West is front row second from right.
Page 41 Mr and Mrs Fleming with a small boy and small girl. Mrs Fleming is receiving a bunch of flowers from the girl and Mr Fleming is holding the boy's hand. Mr Aitken's daughter recalls visiting Mr and Mrs Fleming at their home on Goldington Green and it being the first time that she had seen a television.
Page 43 A female employee receiving a certificate from a man in a suit; to the right sit another man and another woman.
Page 45 Probably a view of the company's board or managers. They are seated in an oval with two men and a woman at the top table furthest away from the camera. Mr Aitken is on the left hand side of the top table.
Page 49 a group of four men and five woman seated around tables probably at a social, but not formal, function.
Page 51 A man seated at a desk checking a spreadsheet.
Page 53 a large group of people at a social function in the office canteen. The donor's mother is first left in the line of people standing at the back.
Page 57 A woman standing at a duplexing machine.
Page 59 a general view over a large group of people at a function in the canteen.
Page 61 A view of a group of people sitting watching a bowl's match. Mr Aitken is sitting at the end of the bench with his arm around his daughter Sue; his other daughter, Janice, is sitting at the other end of the bench.
Page 65 A large group of people at a formal meal. Mr Aitken is standing at the back 8th from the left and Mrs Aitken is first left on the line.
Page 67 A woman presenting a prize to a man in a suit. Behind them to the left stands a man in swimming trunks and in the background to the right is presumed to be a swimming pool.
Page 69 Group of three men and three women at a formal evening event.
Page 71 Mr Flemining making a presentation to another man.
Page 73 Mr Fleming making a presentation to a man at the bowling green, with a line of men standing on the green in the background.
Page 75 A group of men and women at an event in the office; all are smiling and raising glasses.
Page 77 Mr Aitken making a presentation to another man.
Loose at back: group photograph possibly of heads of departments or managers; photograph of men standing near buses identified on the back as 'At SCOW Works Port Talbot 8th April 1951'; press cutting from the Bedfordshire Times 16 Feb 1973 of the unveiling of a portrait of Mr Robert Fleming by Mr George Campbell.
Level of description
item