British Reinforced Concrete Canteen, Stafford,

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Date:9th of December 1943

Description:Workmen in the canteen at British Reinforced Concrete. On the right is Jack Hodgkinson, a spot welder and First Aid worker. Jack was called up during the war and posted to 16 MU in Stafford. He returned to British Reinforced Concrete after the war.

The British Reinforced Concrete Engineering Company manufactured reinforced concrete structures and made steel mesh for reinforcing concrete. The company moved from Manchester to Stafford in 1926, building a new factory in Queensville.

Business declined in the 1980s, and the factory closed in 1990.

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Donor ref:SAMS Acc. No., P76.41.4239, img: 258 (14/813)

Source: Staffordshire Museum Service

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