Photos and History
One of our wonderful commenters found this amazing tin in a charity shop in Uppingham, Rutland for a couple of pounds. It has a sticker on the back stating it was a sample unit and has the old CarnaudMetalbox branding on it, it also shows the phone number as 0623 which means the tin was […]
We get requests and emails all the time from people trying to track down info about old metalbox tins or memories. This email was from an australian lady, enquiring about the Princess Mary Christmas tin – if anyone can help, drop a comment below! Good morning, Do you have any information about how the Princess […]
I was on my way to work the other day, and spotted the old Mansfield Metalbox site is back up for sale! It had originally been bought by a religious organisation, and they were trying to crowdfund enough money to build a megachurch. Many of the local residents were not particularly happy about that, but […]
We recently received an email from an ex Metalbox employee from Rhymney in Wales. He has asked; Hello. I am trying to contact Mr. Terry Barrows, a former employee at Mansfield, who I had the distinct pleasure of working with, at Massilly UK, Rhymney, Gwent. I hope that you have contact details, so that I […]
Jude from Sound Delivery contacted us as she was part of a series aimed at capturing the stories from Mansfield Metalbox workers from the 1940’s to the present day. It is an amazing series, and ill drip feed the episodes onto the website so you can hear all the fascinating stories from ex workers at […]
Cathy sent us an email with a picture of this wonderful tin dating from aroun 1862. If any ex-metalbox staff can help us identify what it was and what was in it that would be great. Please comment below 🙂