Tower Works-traders and owners?

[Bryony]

I'd never seen the metal porcupine sign until recently. It's really intricate, I wonder who made it? Somebody informed me that the old telegraph name for Tower Works used to be 'Porcupine'. Does anybody know any more about that?

[outofthefire]

I used to do odd jobs for Charles at DCM years ago. I used to deliver and pick cars up from customers, make hydraulic lines, pass him many of the specialised tools that he needed to work on Citroens (I seem to remember he had about a dozen different spark plug spanners). He was a good bloke and I learnt a lot from him - mostly never to buy a citroen unless your rich enough to pay someone to mend it ;0) As you went into Tower Works there was a Shooting Range on the right called Pheasant Valley, I think it closed shortly after handguns were banned after the Dunblain Massacre

[BJF]

Tower Works used to make the pins for carding machines.(Straightening out wool fibres to make them ready for spinning) Does the sign date from then?

[chameleon]

We've a few threads featuring this one, you might like to look at this from Phill:http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/sh ... php?t=6864

[tilly]

BJF wrote: Tower Works used to make the pins for carding machines.(Straightening out wool fibres to make them ready for spinning) Does the sign date from then? Hi BJF i worked at the Tower Works in the sixtys i dont remember that sign above the door.I could be wrong but i dont think they would have put up a sign like that it would have been too modern if you know what i mean.It was a very old fashioned firm in more ways than one a lot of the machines were still belt driven when i worked there it was a hell of a job to keep them going but the quality of the pins was better than that of the modern machines used by there competitors.