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john conway · 02-04-2010, 17:54

I served my time at Howard & Buloughs completing it in 1965 in the Drawing Office. I only did 5 months in their own training school because I’d already done two years at the Accrington College of Further Education. However, all the apprentices went back to collage 3 nights a week or as I did three months block release to work our way up to ONC or HNC. The name on my certificate of apprenticeship of the supervisor was W. Riley. During my spell in the Research Work Shop, I did a spell out fitting, installing our new design of draughting equipment with fabricated sides and self-aligning bearings, previous to that everything was cast iron and white metal bearings that took forever to lap in. I needn’t go into details about being incredibly embarrassed as a young lad among the lasses in the Lancashire mills especially around Christmas.
I left Buloughs to go Climbing in the Apls for a few months just before the big fire and then came back to work in the drawing office after couple of years only to leave again to go climbing in the Alps again for a few more months.
I lived in Accrington just up from Buloughs on Higher Antley Street for 20 years before moving up into the Yorkshire Dales where I now live.

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john conway Junior Member+ Join Date: May 2008 Location: Ingleton Yorkshire Dales Posts: 25 Liked: 6 times Rep Power: 0	Re: Howard & Bullough I served my time at Howard & Buloughs completing it in 1965 in the Drawing Office. I only did 5 months in their own training school because I’d already done two years at the Accrington College of Further Education. However, all the apprentices went back to collage 3 nights a week or as I did three months block release to work our way up to ONC or HNC. The name on my certificate of apprenticeship of the supervisor was W. Riley. During my spell in the Research Work Shop, I did a spell out fitting, installing our new design of draughting equipment with fabricated sides and self-aligning bearings, previous to that everything was cast iron and white metal bearings that took forever to lap in. I needn’t go into details about being incredibly embarrassed as a young lad among the lasses in the Lancashire mills especially around Christmas. I left Buloughs to go Climbing in the Apls for a few months just before the big fire and then came back to work in the drawing office after couple of years only to leave again to go climbing in the Alps again for a few more months. I lived in Accrington just up from Buloughs on Higher Antley Street for 20 years before moving up into the Yorkshire Dales where I now live.