:)Hello, just browsing Manlove Alliott, and wondered if anyone remembered my father, Frank White. He worked at Manloves from the early 1930s, we still have a copy of his completed indentures, and was there till the firm closed in April 1970. He travelled all over England, and Wales, also to Ireland fitting sterilisers, first building them and then travelling to fit them in. He fitted all the new laundry equipment in the Union Castle Liners in the 1960s, he trained many apprentices during their 5 year apprenticeship, and was more or less in charge of the training of Manloves Apprentices when they went to Peoples College in the mid to late 1960s. I still wear, with pride, the watch he was presented with in 1964, engraved for over 30 years service, and I have been told by a local jeweller it is of exceptional quality.
I have photos of dad at the Olympia exhibitions, and we certainly knew Jimmy Horridge. I remember the office, which was surrounded by glass, I worked there during the summer holidays in about 1962 for work experience, there was a very pretty young lady called Eileen worked there, and for a while I went out with a Terry Britton who worked in the Offices. After Manloves folded dad worked for a few years at an Adult Training Centre, before he died in 1976 at the age of 61.
Hope some of you remember him.
