{"id":232,"date":"2016-08-19T16:48:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T15:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/?p=232"},"modified":"2017-11-07T15:19:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T15:19:22","slug":"collaro-ltd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Collaro Ltd"},"content":{"rendered":"

From: Derek Fisher<\/strong>
\nby email<\/p>\n

\"Collaro

Collaro Ltd<\/p><\/div>\n

When the Collaro factory left Peckham in the early 1940s to go to Langley Mill in Derbyshire, I don’t suppose anyone knew what floodgates were being opened. There were about 2,000 people employed there making munitions. My late wife and I were amongst them together with many others who came from London and hosts of local girls and a few men. Men were very much in short supply at the time. I was only 16 and with them until a fortnight after my 18th birthday, on 13 August 1944, when I was called up into the army.<\/p>\n

The reason I am writing this now is that a book was published called Boiler Suits, Bofors and <\/em>Bullets<\/em>. It was about Collaro\u2019s and it got my curiosity going so I started making enquiries and eventually managed to track down 22 ex-employees. I arranged a reunion which we had at the Bell Inn at Smalley (not far from Langley Mill) on 26 October 2005. We all had a brilliant time with plenty to “natter” about as we hadn’t seen each other for some sixty years. I think I was the youngest there at 79 and the oldest was 85. I have to give thanks to the South London Press and the Southwark News which both published letters, to John Beasley for his help and all the local press in Derbyshire.<\/p>\n

Note<\/strong>
\nThe Collaro Works were based in Culmore Road, Peckham. The company was founded in 1920 and manufactured gramophone motors and accessories. They went out of business in the 1960s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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