Roll Call
Ex employees, This is your Page - Please Contribute
The following is a List of Employees who worked at The Works, Sheds, C & W Shops and Canal Depot in the last few years whilst I worked there.
Where possible I have added the shop / section / job where they worked at the time that I knew them, and is not necessarilly where they spent most of their Time.
Names of persons in Italics were known to me, names with an ** were known to me personally.
( If you worked at Gorton and want your name added, get in touch with me and add your name )
Please advise if you want your name removed...... ( names coloured blue - Fellow Apprentices )
Appologies for any miss spelt names
Bill Grundy ** Machine shop - Head Foreman
Freddy Mitchell 
** Machine shop - Foreman
Tommy Hagan 
** Machine shop - Foreman
Bill Batters 
** Machine shop - Foreman
Peter Gosling  **               Erecting Shop
Dave Gosling (Self)
**       Machine shop
Harold Faulkner  
**         Loco Sheds
Bobby Faulkner **            Smithy (old roundhouse)
Brian Faulkner
**              Erecting shop
Eric Bond **                    Machine shop
Denis Wild **                    Machine shop
Geoff Newton (Spike) **     Machine shop
Roy Davenport (Daz) **      Machine shop
Barry Irskine (Sarge) **   Machine shop
Rosy (Cosy Rosy)
**           Machine shop 
Lucy (Juicy Lucy)
**         Machine shop
Madge
**                          Machine shop
Mike Carty **                   Machine shop
Billy Ashton **                 Machine shop
George Massey
**               Machine shop  -  Danube
Dick Thornhill 
**             Machine shop  - Mill Wrights
                                                                 (Chargehand)
John Lowe                        Machine shop
Bill Brougham                   Running sheds  -  footplate
Ron Whithead                   Running sheds  -  footplate
Harry Jewett (Snr)
**        Canal Depot
Harry Jewett (Jnr)
**        Running sheds  -  footplate     
Bill Howel **                          Machine shop
Peter Hodgson
**                     Machine shop
David Miles - Jones **             Machine Shop
Doug  (surname !! )  **            Machine shop 
           ( Doug worked on the "Iron Duke" turret lathe)    
Eric Wilks
**                            Machine shop                      Barry Ruscoe **                       Machine shop
Mr  Ruscoe (Barry's Dad)
**    Wheel Shop  
Len Fanning
**                        Machine Shop   
Tommy Leach
**                       Machine shop
Mr Froggat ( surname !! )
**    white metal shop
Freddy Moores
**                       Brake Job {charge hand)
Stan Skinkiss **                         Tool Room
Les Collinge **                          Machine shop
Kieth Eccleston (Echo)
**          Machine Shop
Eric Kaye
**                             Machine shop
Terry Holtby                             Machine Shop
Joe Pollitt  **                          Boiler Shop  -  Axle Box Job
                                                                     ( chargehand )
Stan Trueman
**                       Machine shop - rod job
Jackie Wray 
**                          Machine shop - motion job
                                                                      ( chargehand )
Bert Middlehurst                         Erecting shop