Site Downtime
Hi All Sorry that the site has been down for a few weeks, didn’t notice until today as we are busy busy here! Have you got any old Metalbox stories? Did you work at a Metalbox site when you were younger? Send in your stories! 🙂
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 […]
Ariel Shot of the Demolition of the Mansfield Crown/Metalbox Site!
I just received this in my inbox – shows how big the site is, and how much of it still stands! It also shows the damage caused to the top of the clock tower – looters stole the lead cladding and the metal from the clock mechanism during the night – its really sad to […]