Stories of Old are Unleashed as Glasswell’s Long Serving
Employees Get Together
With a reputation for employing highly loyal staff, Glasswells say a big thank you to all long serving employees with two special people in mind.
At a special lunch recently held for all long serving employees of Glasswells,
of which there are quite a few, the staff reminisced about hard work, good
times and funny stories. There are 50 names on Glasswell’s long
serving employees board, a board where you must serve at least 20 years
before you have the honour of seeing your name added. However Ted
Crouch and Roger Tricker head the team with nearly 90 years of combined
service between them at Glasswells.
From left, Ted Crouch, Paul Glasswell, Roger Tricker.
Ted started work in 1955 on the removals side of the business, once described as “A strong bloke, the sort of guy who you should have pushing a piano rather than pulling one. The sort of chap that picks sideboards up on his own.” Ted started when we had three or four different small warehouses around Bury, which he used to keep in good order, cycling from one to another. Paul Glasswell, Glasswells Managing Director comments, “He is a wonderfully happy man, give him a pint of bitter, a corner stool, someone to talk to and he is happy. He works part-time for us now at our storage and distribution centre, still unloading furniture and still sweeping up, after 50 years. He is the salt of the earth and a great Suffolk boy and we would like to thank him for half a century of hard work.”
Roger Tricker joined Glasswells in 1965 working in their Brentgovel Street store selling electrical equipment and later transferred to carpet sales and then carpet fitting. He worked with his fitting partner Barry for over 20 years and because of his skill, his manager always gave him the difficult work such as laying the most expensive carpet. Seven years ago, he hung up his knee kicker and became Glasswell’s carpet warehouse manager and Paul Glasswell adds, “We are lucky to have Roger and he is lucky that I do not hold a grudge for him rolling me up inside a carpet whilst still a school boy!”
Other stories about the ‘magical early days’ came to light during the celebratory lunch such as vans being pulled from ditches in the middle of the night. Long hours setting up exhibitions, the teamwork that often only comes from fledgling companies. All hard work but looking back everyone seemed to enjoy it.
Paul Glasswell concludes, “In our company we are very lucky, we have many good employees and many hard workers and we like to think they are treated quite well by us too. Going by the number of long serving staff this certainly seems to be evidence towards this. Our thanks go to all our long serving employees, of which I hope there will be many more in the future.”
