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My name is David Bunn, I started work at Reads Cans on the 19th of January 1970, and left on the 13th of March 2002, I have very happy memories of my working time at this factory first as a machine operator then as a maintenance mechanic . . . .
Hi, my name is Tim Holt. I started at “the can” in 1976 i think it was and finished as it was shut down to help fit the ex Grantham machines at Sutton in Ashfield. 30 years.!! In my time there i had the privilege of working along side Dave “Bunny” Bunn and Pete/Mark “Ozzy” Osbourne along with many others. Ow, where did the years go.??
Hello David! Wow?? was not so sure Reads was so early in the Town! Obviously was mate! I had my best mate work there in the day! Think he was well known! Ozzy? Pete or Mark Osbourne! I worked for Grantham Road Services! in the day we used to carry loads of your product! Hey all gone “Tits” since them day’s@ I know as EX?? contractor SINCE! it’ got very “cut throat” & not sure a Local transport company these days would get such a big company’s work! David! I probably know you? I just only lately hooked up on Grantham Matters! My Cousin used to send me stuff! & I could never get on site! haha! I am now obviously Dave I might know you! my God so-so’ difficult in Grantham cos’ everyone wants to be hard? I knew a Sandra Bunn’ David! Well say know?? we used to know each other!! My God???? if she only knew! but guess she hooked up with some handsome??? Nah not from Grantham Haha! I was allost hansome PIG in Grantham & choosy? But never ever scored David! Hey! & by the way still on my own?? wonder why!!!! X
Yoey
One of the first runs I got from Brian Dable ( first class guy) was out of Reads cans to the Co-Op canning plant up at Montrose in Scotland. When I foolishly asked George Horton ( another first class bloke) where Montrose was his reply was “ At the end of the A1” with that I bought my first road map. I used to run cans into Petfoods at Melton, another transport outfit was Machins, rember them well, but they went bust I believe sometime in the eighties if my memory serves me correctly.
I’m also an ex can maker worked from 1972 to 1988 alongside Dave Bunn , Tim Holt, Cyril Gutteridge and also but not only the Late Great Pete Hack. amongst many, a great crowd of people to have known.