Stoke-on-Trent Museum corner windows - Brundretts
This paper clipping from 1978 reports about the large corner windows for the Stoke-on-Trent museum, it brings pride to our family because my dad Peter Adams made them.
He was working for Brundretts the shop fitters company in Tunstall where they made many of the citys high street shops window frames , door frames ,shelving units etc.
Shopping trips when younger was spot the window/door frame made by dad, when my children were younger it was find grandads window frames.
Shops he works on were Sainsburys , Rumbelows, M&S, Wrights pie shops,Lewis's , Appollo2000,Bucks jewerally,Cumbos car dealaship, William Hills, Bejams, John English.and many more small independant shops through out the city.
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Hi Dereth Small world, my Dad
Hi Dereth Small world, my Dad worked there too. I've not heard the word "Rumbelows" for a good few years.
My brother and I used to go with him on jobs at the weekend if he needed to finish jobs off. Thanks for the memory jog.
yes i used to go into the
yes i used to go into the wood and alunmium workshops too and help out - i also learnt to drive the vans on in the yards .
Every time we saw the giant
Every time we saw the giant Tea Pot in the potteries shopping centre, I'd hear a tale of my Dad helping to make that. Happy times.
where did that go?it was used
where did that go?
it was used at thes-o-t garden festivel beforehand .
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This article brings back
This article brings back memories. I first visited the museum on a school trip, I think it was primary school so I wasn't very old at the time. I remember standing in one of those windows and looking out at the many bottle kilns. The window itself and the view fascinated me.
I've since been back to the museum more recently and most of those kilns have since been demolished :-(
I didn't know the windows were installed in1978, and I will always remember that now as that's the year that I was born.
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