GONE are the days of mass factory employment, when even small concerns provided jobs for dozens of people.
The photograph here takes us back to such times, and it has been sent to us by Tony Lewis of Halesowen, who tells us that it was given to him by my his late Aunt, Edna May Fern, nee Perkins, and he thinks it was taken in the mid 1940s at a small factory in Pool Road, Smethwick, called Neals.
He writes, “I lived in and spent a very happy childhood in Pool Road myself and recognise many of the workers’ faces, but most of their names elude me, so I was wondering if your many readers recognise relatives and friends from an age when neighbours and workmates really meant something”.
Tony’s Aunt Edna is fifth from the left, second row from the back.
