Howard & Bullough

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Soloman

Do you remember Harry Watson? Do you have any pictures of the Home Guard?.

The guy aint posted fer nearly 3 years, better off sending a PM n hoping mate.

[Soloman]

Oh! damn, he was probably my last chance. Cheers.

[vinny]

Here is a cutting taken from a newspapers which I've come across.
William Whalley was my Dad, he died in 1968 age 53. Not a long innings as they would say in Cricket. He worked at H&B all his live, loved Cricket and Football.

[landhusweg]

My Grandfather Albert (Dick) Swain worked as the Manager of the moulding dept. he retired approx. 1947. He originally came from Birmingham but moved to Accrington approx. 1910 because of his knowledge of moulding cast steel.

Cheers

Philip Kenyon
Late Belfield Rd.

[landhusweg]

A funny Story on H&B:
It must have been 1963-64. The Landlord Ted of the Junction Inn (directly across the road from the then public baths), asked a friend and myself if we could look after the pub between 11:00 and 13:00 on Saturday, as his Daughter was getting married at the nearby St. James’s church. As we were regulars and used to working behind bars (Blockade, Black Abbey), we were only too pleased to help out.
Ted had been working on a buffet all morning and by 11:00 it was all finished ready for the wedding party and guests to arrive. He then covered the buffet with spotlessly white table cloths.
At 12:00 workers who had been working (overtime) on Saturday morning started to turn up and were ordering pints of beer. From the bar through to the private rooms one could see the spotlessly clean table clothes. All of a sudden one guy said “Oh no, what has happened to Ted, was it a heart attack?” My friend and I jumped straight on the “band wagon” and said “it was a real shame, but Ted didn’t want to disappoint his regular customers from H&B, therefore asking us to take over”. This of course was telling any lies! Everybody was the saying what a nice guy Ted was and of course how he was respected.
At about 12:45 the family then arrived back at the pub by using the side private entrance. Nobody from the bar could see this happening of course. Ted then needed to use the gent’s toilet and passed quickly across the corridor between the bar and the private living rooms. All of a sudden one of the regulars (who had noticed this) went all white and said “bloody hell I’ve just seen Ted’s ghost”!
At this stage Ted came into the bar, greeted everybody, and asked us if everything was ok and how it went. You can imagine what the workers said to my friend and myself!

Philip Kenyon
Late Belfield Rd

[Bob Dobson]

Nice one, Phillip. I was a regulsr in the Junction late 50s into the 60s. One night, I danced on a round 'Britannia' table and broke it. We had a whip round to pay the landlord, who I think was called Alan. We drank John Smith's 'Nips' ( strong ale) in there.

[Accyexplorer]

Please can someone tell me if these are the remains of Howard & Bullough clocking in tokens?

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[cashman]

They do look like em, but dont remember if hole in em or not, its been that long.

[Accyexplorer]

Cheers C,they defiantly say Howard & bullough Accrington.
Do you know if they had any other types of tokens there....pay tokens etc?

[Big Dave]

All were the same stamped with : num1 morning check in,num2 afternoon check in,
num3 to get your wage, num4 overtime check out

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Big Dave

All were the same stamped with : num1 morning check in,num2 afternoon check in,
num3 to get your wage, num4 overtime check out

Good un D, yer memorys much better n mine lol

[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Big Dave

All were the same stamped with : num1 morning check in,num2 afternoon check in,
num3 to get your wage, num4 overtime check out

They are as you say numbered 1-4 but 1 was morning clock in, 2 was fternoon, 3 was clock out after overtime, and 4 was for your wages. The hole in the middle was to hang it on a pot hook on your deparments board, they were returned to you during the afternoon by the shop clerk, number 4 was returned during the following mondays hand back, both Langs and Bulloughs used the same system, mu number was J10.

[Big Dave]

you are right retlaw, I got mixed up, my number was 624

[Mog]

Does the name Dick Mason ring any bells with you guys.

[Big Dave]

Did he work in stores in the 70's Mog ? I think I remember him.