Harold Wood & Sons Ltd Bulk Liquid Transporters
I am looking for info on what has happened to a very large firm I worked for decades ago now, namely Harold Wood & Sons Ltd, Wormald Street, Heckmondwyke. It was a very, very busy firm of bulk liquid haulage contractors. Having recently returned to my home town of Brighouse after over 30 years working and living in Cheshire I have been retracing my youth and when visiting Heckmondwyke I was surprised to find that people I talked to had no idea about Harold Wood's at all. It was a huge firm and having visited the site the blue railings are still there but the Offices/Canteen/Huge Garage complex have been demolished and been replaced by other industrial buildings. I would love to hear from anyone who worked for HW's or from anyone who can tell me what became of them. My time with them was in the very early 1960s and it was the firm that gave me the spur to my ultimate job for the rest of my life with ICI Mond Division (Chemicals).
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RE: RE: Harold Wood & Sons Ltd Bulk Liquid Transporters
I worked as a driver at H/W Widnes depot from 1969 to1990,on various contracts, we became Tankfreight and then combined with Pickfords Tank Haulage. They were the best years of my life!! I am now 83 years young and still a H/W man (not many of us left). Have fun. Ken Johnson
Comment from Kenneth Johnson on Saturday, 24th December 2011.
RE: RE: Harold Wood & Sons Ltd Bulk Liquid Transporters
I started work at Harold Woods in 1951, straight from school. At that time we were at Booth Street in Cleckheaton. I was an apprentice auto elecrician (Sparks or Sparky as I was known). The tankers at that time were parked in a yard overnight and at weekends on where the Health Centre is now. Eventually we moved to Wormald Street in Heckmondwike to a brand new garage. The foreman (engineer )was Joe Sykes and he was a bit scary to us lads as he only had one eye and was always hidden behind a cloud of cigarete smoke. I always used to be late a few minutes every morning and Joe said to me that the first time I clocked in early the bloody roof would fall in. The man must have been able to see into the future with his only eye as the first day back at work after doing 2 years National Service I was setting a good example by being very early. This was January 1959 I think, and before the morning was out a petrol tanker blew up inside the garage and the roof and a lot more came crashing down.I have a photo somewhere of the tank split open like a banana.Two men were badly injured unfortunately. What a welcome back to work.
Comment from Geoffrey Myers on Monday, 23rd January 2012.
RE: RE: Harold Wood & Sons Ltd Bulk Liquid Transporters
Did anyone know my dad John Falconer, he was a driver?
Comment from Derek Falconer on Sunday, 12th February 2012.
RE: RE: Harold Wood & Sons Ltd Bulk Liquid Transporters
I remember walking past Harold Woods on Wormold Street on my way to my Grandparents off Union Road. Pleasant memories of those days.
Comment from Jan Mason on Monday, 27th February 2012.
RE: RE: Harold Wood & Sons Ltd Bulk Liquid Transporters
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Comment from Michael Andrews on Sunday, 18th March 2012.