Fred Smallbone

Alfred Frederick Walter Smallbone (1899 - 1953)
 
Fred Smallbone was born in Islington in 1899, and joined the Company as an apprentice filer in October 1916 at the age of 17.  He married Dorothy Elizabeth Robins in Edmonton in 1926.
 
He is pictured here at Goswell Road in the 1920s.
 
Fred became Scale Shop Foreman in 1947 and is shown here (centre) with Stan Lee (left) adjusting a fan scale at Angel Road, Edmonton in 1948, with Fred Betts (Scalemaker) on the far right.
 
He resigned from the Company in 1951 after nearly 35 years service, and died in Bournemouth in 1953.
 
 

 
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