SID Bedford still has fond memories of the days he started work at the Ceag - even though it is about 75 years ago.
He was only 14 when he joined the staff shortly after leaving school in 1934. "My dad was a miner and he told me he wasn't going to let me go down the pit. He wanted me to work on a building site, but I ended up at Ceag on Jumble Lane."
Sid worked in the Chrome Plating shop, it was hard work and long hours, but he didn't mind as he liked the work.
Later in his teens he left Ceag and went to work for haulier, Ernest Wright. Born in 1919, Sid formerly lived at 22, Honeywell Lane, Barnsley.
He has loaned to Memories a photograph of staff at Ceag shortly after he started working there. He is third from the right on the back row. The manager, Mr Dooley is standing on the left-hand side of the photograph. Another member of the management team was Mr Crosby who is third from the right on the middle row. "We used to call him Bing," said Sid.
Some of the girls on the photograph, whose job it was to make pit lamps, had previously worked as conductresses at the Yorkshire Traction Company.
