“Weer thiell’s that?”

Dear Vin, As I always look at the Retro section “weer thiell’s that” in the star on a Saturday you can imagine my surprise at seeing the picture and name of Edwin Blyde as the main feature.

It so happens that only three weeks ago I took the opportunity to go into the City Library to see if I could look at Geoff Tweedale’s book on the city’s well-known trade.

As you will see I am Dennis Trickett (81), son of Walter Stanley Trickett (Born 1901), who started work at Edwin Blyde circa 1917/8 where the manager was Mr H Gomm.

I left school at 15/16 and joined my father in 1955.

My father retired in the 1970s and died in 1982.

The facts relating to James Furniss (Pewterware Manufactures), was that they rented room from Edwin Blyde and when the owner (name escapes me), decided to retire my father decided to buy that company and put it under the umbrella of Edwin Blyde & Co. Ltd.

In 1982 we had the chance to relocate to Little London Road where we joined forces with another pewter company.

This was when pewter manufacturing was our main trade.

I retired around 2007/8 with the company relocating once more, as you say to Catley Road, Darnall.

I still pop in to see them!

Returning to Walter Trickett, details are a bit sketchy but I do know that my uncle Ronald Trickett was about seven or eight years younger than my father and so must have been born around 1908/9 and therefore joined Walter Trickett’s sometime just before my grandfather’s death on the beach at Llandudno in 1926.

I am ashamed to say that I did not keep up to speed on the doings of Walter Trickett and Edwin Blyde through the 1930s and 40s, so help there would be much appreciated.

Just before I finish there are two corrections: The Truro Works of Walter Trickett should read The Truro Works of Atkin Brothers! It should be an Edwin Blyde pen knife not pocket!

It’s a great article, keep it coming.