Old Ledbury - The British Canners

Newspaper Cuttings have been taken from old Ledbury Reporter newspapers, adverts from Tilleys Almanac 1916 and 1958, photos are credited to the owners and comments are from members of old ledbury group on Facebook

This building started out as Gloucester Aircraft Company making wings for Typhoons, then Beatty Bros Bike Factory then British Canners

1947

Beatty Bros (Tenbury) Ltd Canned Goods Warehouse

Photos from Britain from Above - Copyright English Heritage

Date unknown

Beatty Bros Bike Factory

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Photo Terry WILKINS Collection TW85

Back Row Mr ISHERWOOD, unknown, Fred WILCOX, unknown

Front Row unknown, unknown, Barbara EVANS, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown

Photo Terry WILKINS Collection TW86

Fred WILCOX, unknown

Photo Terry WILKINS Collection TW87

Gwennie WILKINS, unknown

Photo Terry WILKINS Collection TW88

2nd from left Edie MORRIS, rest unknown

Photo Terry WILKINS Collection TW89

unknown, unknown, unknowm, Ron TAYLOR, Emilio PONTI

Photo Terry WILKINS Collection TW90

Johnny CHESTER, unknown, Fred WILCOX, Ron KENDRICK

Photo Terry WILKINS Collection TW91

Possibly taken in Birmingham - Gwennie WILKINS 1st left, 3rd left ...NICHOLAS

Photo Terry WILKINS Collection TW92

Fred WILCOX

Photo Terry WILKINS Collection TW93

Mr ISHERWOOD from out of the office

Photo Terry WILKINS Collection TW94

Gate Entrance- unknown

Photo Terry WILKINS Collection TW95

Date unknown

British Canners

Back Row - Emily MANSELL ( Barnett ), unknown

Middle Row - unknown

Front Row - unknown

Photo Chip Andrew BRYON Collection CAB1

What a lovely photo, the trays in the background look like the ones we used to use on the blackcurrant patch!!...JE

Then after a full shift they went home and started again. No washing machine or vacuum either...JB

They may have worked very hard, but they do look a happy bunch of workers...VB

This place did not become British Canners until after the war, it was built to assemble aircraft wings for I think Typhoons, there were two factories in Bromyard Road and another one in Newent, the finished wings were taken to Gloucester Aircraft Co for assembly. Lots of Ledbury women worked there as riveters..JG

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1958

British Canners Ltd, Glos b Factory, Bosbury Road, Telephone 352

Source Tilleys Almanack 1958

Ledbury Reporter

The Reporter now has Archive photographs for the years 2005 - 2009 which you can view and order. Select a year then make sure Ledbury is the keyword entered before pressing GO. I have spent many an hour in the Ledbury Library looking through the old Reporters which are on microfiche. Support this great local paper.