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50 Years Ago
Mr. Charlie Schofield, on the right in this picture, started work at Earnshaw Bros. and Booth Limited in 1932 when he left school and is a fully trained french polisher. He now supervises the finishing processes. In seven years in the Forces Charlie served with the 8th Army "Desert Rats" and now learns Esperanto, a language designed to help "Nation speak peace unto nation."
From the first of an Express weekly industrial feature "We Can Make It" by Allan Halstead. The series outlines each firm's history and development and tells the story of ordinary people. It was linked with a competition "Unsung Hero '71" with a prize of a holiday in Ireland with a companion.
Now spread over 130,000 sq. ft, the firm started in 1917 in a small converted house in Swainbank Street, where John Charles Earnshaw was joined by his brother Maxwell, Wilfrid Booth and finally by J. W. Shackleton. There were moves to Waterloo Mill, Pentridge Mill and finally Central Mill.
