Benchairs used a number of sites around Frome for assembling and storing their chairs.
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Robert Hawker looks back at his varied working career in and around Frome
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Robert Hawker talks about his training at Frome College and his work as a carpenter.
Paul Truscott talks about his working life in the carpentry business
Paul Truscott learned his carpentry skills from his uncle. He remembers the carpentry jobs he did in Frome and the pleasures of traditional carpentry and joinery.
John Stocker discusses his working life at Benchairs
John Stocker worked for Benchairs, a firm that imported base units of chairs and other furniture from Eastern Europe. They assembled them, stored them throughout Frome, and sold them on.
Joan Smith looks back at her work with Beswick’s Fuses
Joan Smith worked at Beswick’s in Merchants Barton and had to walk past the slaughter house to get to work.
Ian Spearing remembers his time working at Beswick’s Fuses
Ian Spearing worked for Beswick’s – a Frome firm that made fuses. In later life he went to live in Canada.