The Royal Visit and More!
A big thanks to David Hughes who has sent us this lovely little bit of history about the Mansfield Metalbox site, right back to when it was Barringers, Wallace and Manners – so a couple of years ago! My Grandpa, Leslie Wass, worked at Metal Box for 39 years (from the Barringers, Wallace and Manners […]
Metalbox during WW1 and WW2
We had an email from s0meone interested in what the old metalbox site was used for during the 2 world wars, i got my contact to do some reasearch and this is what she found; Hello Lorna Thank you for visiting the Mansfield Metalbox site – we hope you liked it. As regards your comment […]
Old Metalbox Books
We’ve had another email from one of our regular visitors, and he has kindly sent in some pictures of old Metalbox Book covers Well, they don’t look like the books in my memory, but here are a couple of photos that my sister has taken for me of some MetalBox related books. Hopefully I’ll be […]
Rare Beatles Tray?
We’ve had a comment from a visitor that i felt would benefit from going on here as a main article – can you help? Just stumbled on this website while Googling for Worcester Ware. I spent a few months at Rock Valley during my student Apprenticeship, so I knew there had been some such production. […]
Fond Memories of Metalbox
I thought i’d post this as a blog entry as its a really nice insight into ancient metalbox I only just found out today that MetalBox was being knocked down from my wife. My dad worked in the tool room from 1980 when it was on the ground floor in the main building until about […]