DO you remember the big names in Maldon that MADE things?
Remember John Sadd & Sons (where my father worked from 1956 to 1978) which later became Boulton & Paul Ltd? Indeed, I worked there from 1975 to 1978. They made wooden and aluminium ladders, kitchen units, roof trusses, doors, windows, TV units and more.
Stella Components was another big name making all kinds of tubular items. Ever Ready, in Heybridge, made batteries, Bentalls made farm machinery and petrol engines, they even built cars.
Then there was Cooks Boatyard making Thames barges and launches until it closed in the 1980s, Gray’s Brewery and English Electric Valves.