We organise social events ranging from coffee mornings to fun bowls competitions. All the family are welcome to join in. One of the Melbourne Station Pier cranes, was reinstalled as part of the heritage interpretation scheme for the pier. [35] A year after the move, Eric, with the help of his eldest son Simon, began work on his new roller. "I thought, I'll just get myself together and I'll make something," he recalls.

TCN says when this is completed it will provide a creative campus with a mix of units to suit 40-50 small and medium size companies. PLAN: the cranes stand on Prince’s Wharf, on the Floating Harbour. Numbered 29 to 32, they are mounted on rails running east-west between the quayside and the M-Shed. representative of the output of Stothert and Pitt of Bath, leaders in the industry in the C19 and C20, internationally.

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Five examples of electric cranes provided in 1951 have been preserved by Bristol Museum Service at Princes Wharf. Goliath cranes, sometimes called portal cranes, are similar to overhead travelling cranes, but instead of running on rails at high level, or on a free standing gantry structure, they run on rails on the floor. One of the advantages of a goliath crane is that the absence of support gantry rails can save money.

Its condition is very poor and it is currently being restored by a group of volunteer experts, led by Peter Dunn and Arthur Feltham, former Stothert and Pitt service engineers. The trustees of the Bath Stone Quarry Museum Trust have expressed a willingness for the restored crane to be erected in Bath. In the period from the 1840s to 1900 the Bath company expanded rapidly. Moving from earlier premises on the north side of the river Avon, to the Newark Street Works on the south-side, then, developing the Victoria Works in the 1890s which filled the valley between the river and the Lower Bristol Road. Some early work by Stothert can still be seen on the Kennett & Avon Canal in Bath, where two very elegant iron bridges span the canal with the Stothert name on them. However, it was in the 1840s that the firm began to develop the cranes which eventually were to make them a world name in crane building. Stothert & Pitt - The Rise and Fall of a Bath Company (Millstream Books 2007), John Payne, ISBN 978 0 948975 79 0In 1837, Henry Stothert, brother of the younger George, set up an ironworks in Bristol, first as Henry Stothert & Co., then, joined by Edward Slaughter, Stothert, Slaughter & Co. Slaughter had earlier formed Slaughter & Co. at his Avonside Ironworks, later and better known as Avonside. This works produced some substantial iron engineering including a swivel bridge over the river Frome, several of the first engines for Brunel's Great Western Railway and the Bristol and Exeter Railway, as well as 14 engines for the Brighton and South Coast Railway. Ken Andrews and Stuart Burroghs (2003). Stothert & Pitt, Crane Makers to the World. ISBN 0-7524-2794-6. A key part of Bath’s Enterprise Zone, Bath Quays South will offer spaces for the digital, technology and creative companies who can deliver the right type of jobs for Bath’s economic future. Stothert & Pitt moved from Bath to Bristol in summer 2008 to the Bradman Lake offices on Yelverton Road in Brislington, Bristol. Bradman Lake moved again in 2019 to Unity Road, Keynsham taking Stothert & Pitt with them. During World War II the company built tanks and miniature submarines for the War Office, as well as armaments.

Cranes produced by the company survive throughout the World, particularly within the former Empire. Stothert & Pitt Ltd had its origins in George Stothert's (1755-1818) ironmongery business in 1785.Mr Claude M. Toplis who was for the past fourteen years chief engineer resigned. Major E. G. Fiegehen was the remaining partner. [21] However warm and generous an individual might be (and, having met Eric and Marlene, I can personally vouch for the fact that the couple are both), fate is indiscriminate in its dealings as, in 2007, Marlene was diagnosed with breast cancer. Having been married for over forty years and raised two sons during good times and bad, Marlene is definitely the 'power behind the throne.' She reacted to the news in a matter of fact fashion, opting to have a mastectomy. "After the biopsy results, I was told that lumps are graded from one to five, and my lump was a grade four," she remembers. "I had the choice of having a mastectomy or not, and I told the specialist to 'take it all off.' It's my life and my body." We encourage all members to play in our teams but there is no pressure to do so and if you prefer to play social games that is just fine. Engineering is in Eric's blood. His father worked at Fowlers in the days when this whole area of Leeds was dedicated to engine manufacture, housing not only Fowlers, but Greens, McLaren's and Hunslets. "Dad was a part of it," says Eric. Once the war started, Mr. Smith senior became part of the effort to keep up moral. "I grew up on the fairgrounds of Lancashire and Liverpool. Most of them had shut down, and it was important to keep the ones that were left running. Dad was their resident engineer," Eric explains. "I went to any number of different schools." The 16-month build programme commenced in late-August and it is scheduled to be completed and ready for businesses to move in by December 2021.