Yes please fill out the north London areas with new additions

Please order in any later available editions

Any later dates to be approved to conclude our archives thanks

Welcome more dates

Welcome more dates

Can we see you augment the archives with the additions of the 50-80’s online

Can we see you augment the archives with the additions of the 50-80’s online

I note little in the way of progress completing more updates with the Herald, please approve further submissions taking us well into the 1970’s, this weekly paper provided great commentary on the area’s news.

Please offer more support for our local
Archives

We’d be grateful of new year’s to be digitalised !! We witness more West London admissions with the Marylebone Mercury and Westminster News , Chelsea News etc to go with their glittering array of collections yet North London is constantly ignored !!? Not impressed

More accounts please

Or the Hornsey journal please on the horizon soon ??

I’ve just read you message on the Lebus website.

I was interested to see that you had family named Bright (Uncle and Cousin I think). My mother worked at Lebus’ before and during WW2 and her name was Hilda Rose Bright. Her father was Herbert George Bright who unfortunately died in 1921 at the age of 31. His parents were Henry and Jane Bright. Our family has no contact with the Brights and I would be very interested to hear whether your family were from the same branch of the Bright family.

I look forward to hearing from you

My father, Ernie Messenger and his brother Dick, plus dad’s brother in law Lou Bamber all worked for Lebus. lou went to Wrighton’s, but my dad was made redundant in 69, along with hundreds of others. not much on that available.

my mum Betty and my dad’s sister Prim, worked at Burgess’s in tottenham high road. I remember putting the change in metal canisters and sending it back to the shop floor. I think it was called the Lamson

My father William Butler work in the offices from 1926 until the firm
closed. I still have his presentation wrist watch given to him on
retirement. My father lost his first job in London during the General
Strike and walk miles looking for employement. When he arrived at Harris
Lebus looking for work, Herman Lebus was coming out of the door, and gave my
father a job on the spot.
I worked from the age of 15 (1949) to 1952 at the Workes Office ad Personel
Office as Junior. I was allowed two afternoons to attend Tottenham
Technical College. It was a fantastic place, the wood arrived as trees at
one end of the factory and came out the other end as furniture.
I went to parties when I was young and while working there went to the
famous dances they held.
The hours were long and my wages for a 40 hour week were 1.10s.
I reemember meeting all the Lebus clan and had a long conversation with
Anthony Lebus once, he was a charming man.
Whe I married I chose my furniture from Tab.Street, in London
I have a photograph of a dance my parents went to.
I sent the rest of my father’s archive material when he died to Bruce Grove
Museum.

I worked in tottenham factory between 1960 & 1966.
Met my wife there.
My father, uncle & cousin worked there.b (names Bright & Scott)
I have a Lebus pension worth £29 PA.
I worked in design development & drawing office.
I worked in Maddox street on saturdays
Oliver Lebus paid for Stan the barber to shave off my beard.
Hope these thoughts are of interest

my uncle who has just died at the age of 104.10, started work at Tottenham, in 1920 out in the field unloading the barges and sorting out wood from all over the world, he had a good memory and remembers Sol Lebus and his brother and also their sons – 1 of whom was Oliver Lebus, during the WW2 they made the wings for Spitfires, and also made the gliders for the Normandy Landings as well as the hausers – landing craft. He took early retirement when the company shut down Tottenham and moved to up north, in the middle 1960;’s.

My uncle who has just died at the age of 104.started work at Tottenham, in 1920 out in the field unloading the barges and sorting out wood from all over the world, he had a good memory and remembers Sol Lebus and his brother and also their sons – 1 of whom was Oliver Lebus, during the WW2 they made the wings for Spitfires, and also made the gliders for the Normandy Landings as well as the hausers – landing craft. He took early retirement when the company shut down Tottenham and moved to up north, in the middle 1960;’s.

I became fascinated by the Lebus story when I moved to Tottenham in 2001.

I like to find out more information from the papers archives regarding Lebus

Compile extra north London coverage