Vintage work crew photos

[olderdan]

I really like these vintage work crew archives, this one reminds me of 1959 when I started my apprenticeship at Vickers Armstrong, I actually started in 1958 aged 15 so had to wait a year serving as a post boy until I was 16. That was a fantastic experience as I would visit every Dept on a daily basis and got to see all aspects of manufacturing, they did a lot of MOD work, ships guns etc and the place was full of shops just like this one. I got friendly with a lot of machinists and you soon learnt which ones to go to who had cigarettes and chock bars for sale from their lockers.
Happy days.