An interview with Geoffrey Shepherd on making chassis for Nash Healeys.
Geoffrey Shepherd was a mechanical assembler at the Cape Works
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Geoffrey Shepherd: …we was doing them things for Tickford, we were ...
Interviews with Brian Marsh on making the hulls for the boats and testing their stability and John Gardner on building fibreglass Healey boats
Brian Marsh worked for Healey Marine in the ...
Interviews with Gordon Barton and Brian Marsh on the development of the headlights on the Sprite and Nick Maltby on the introduction of the Sprite Mark 1.
Gordon Barton worked in ...
Interviews with John Gardner, Terry Westwood, John Harris, Paul Hunt, Paul Stanforth and Roger Beard on working the Geoff and Brian Healey.
John Gardner had various jobs at the Cape Works ...
An interview with Sam Nelson on buying a Healey Silverstone as a young man.
Sam Nelson owned several Healey motor cars and was an associate of the Healey family.
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Sam Nelson: there ...
Daw Mill Colliery was a natural development of Kingsbury and Dexter Collieries which worked the coal in the northern end of the coalfield. It was the only new colliery to ...
The almshouse at Temple Balsall was founded by Lady Katherine Leveson who added a codicil to her will in 1671 leaving the manor of Balsall to Trustees for the erection ...
Interviews with John Gardner, Gordon Barton, Geoffrey Shepherd and Terry Westwood. They talk about working at the Cape Works site, the hardships of metalworking and visits from American airmen.
John Gardner ...
My dad Horace William Boyer was born in Lonavala near Bombay in 1930. His parents Daisy and Eustice were Anglo Indians – Eustice was an engineer and Daisy was telephonist ...
The postman’s just been, and in among them is a pile of model cars – I really must stop browsing auction sites! In this set, however, is an Alvis TD21 ...
Interviews with Garth Wood on snow inside a 58 Frogeye, Rob Harrison on learning to drive in a 100 Healey, David Unitt on driving a Healey and Paul Stanforth a ...
Primitive Methodists were meeting in Bishops Itchington by 1849 (but the congregation was not recorded in the 1851 religious census). A chapel for 100 people was built in Poplar Road ...
