Website Started!

By June 2nd, 2010

Welcome to the Mansfield Metalbox Tribute website, dedicated to the awesome site on which the metalbox factory was built. The site has an amazing history, and is nearing the end of its life due to its inhabitants (Barringers/CMB/Carnaud Metal Box/Crown) moving out after being situated there for over 100 years.

The site has become unsafe in parts, and costs a lot of money to run due to poor insulation and leaky roof’s – so Crown have moved to a new site, leaving the old place to be re-developed by its new owner.

This website is a tribute to the old site, there is/will be photographs that we’ve taken, news, reports and stories that have been submitted by people who worked their, lived there or just know a cool story about Metalbox and its crazy history :)

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8 Responses to “Website Started!”

  1. Chris nolan Says:
    July 15th, 2010 at 7:26 pm

    Oliver
    Very good i wish I could of taken you round before we started to move and you could of taken photos before and after but for people who have worked at ‘Barringers’ it will be a very good memory of the site.
    Once again well done
    Chris

  2. Brian Says:
    September 15th, 2010 at 7:38 pm

    Great site, so many memories.

  3. Bob Evans Says:
    October 1st, 2010 at 10:47 pm

    Great site, I didn’t work at CMB for long, but I have great memories.
    Best of luck for the future.
    Bob

  4. Brian Says:
    October 14th, 2010 at 10:05 pm

    I started part time work (07.00-12.00) at metal box in the summer of 1976; my first job was working in seamless one, on the body belt of one of the cafe crème lines. Basically removing and then putting these bodies on the belt so they fed into the auto part of the line were the bodies are attached to the lids coming from the other side, the noise was incredible.

  5. len patrick Says:
    December 15th, 2010 at 2:32 pm

    now live in southport and only just picked up this site..started at barringers fresh from raf service in march/april 1948 and worked in commercial office untiltransfer to head office 1956…….if any names or details about the business are required for this period i might be able to help

  6. Shelley Says:
    April 29th, 2011 at 4:49 pm

    I worked at metal box as a temp whilst I was training in Accountancy. I really loved it. Now I’m a lecturer in vehicle refinishing and look at my time there very fondly, I think my time there had sparked my intrest in metal work . I was so so sad to see the news this morning. All the best with this site.
    Thank you

  7. Unknown Says:
    July 20th, 2011 at 6:21 pm

    Worked there for 2 summers (probably 89-90) when i was a student. I was counting my blessings today, being employed at a successful financial software company in the States, and trying to convince a colleague that we have it really good here. Then i remembered back to the days at CMB, every minute of which I disliked very much. Overall, I think it helped me put perspective on what working choices are (or aren’t) available for some people. Hated the job (mostly on the whiskey lines) but i would hve to say the people were great. It’s funny, but i can’t look at the liquor bottles in the duty freee at the airport without thinking of my two summers there, and it will be sad to consider that those great cases aren’t made in Mansfied anymore..

  8. martin ross Says:
    November 1st, 2012 at 7:35 pm

    I warked there for 18 years had a brilliant time. miss the people i warked in all dept

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