Stuart Laidlaw’s-Memories of my father Francis John Laidlaw b.30/09/1911-d.30/04/1986
1948
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My father worked here before and after the War.
Closed around 1951 and was taken over by Hamilton & Inches on the same site as today.
Dad worked there for a few years prior to 1964 after leaving H. Samuel.
Added by Stuart Laidlaw
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