Benny Rothman collection 1932-2000

Rothman, Benny, 1911-2002

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Benny Rothman was born on 1st June 1911 in Cheetham, Manchester. He won a scholarship to Manchester Central High School for boys but left just as he was about to take his matriculation exam, a job in the motor trade at Tom Garner's was found for him. He had no option, the family was poor, his father had died when he was 12 and he had to help support his widowed mother and family. For his first two years at Tom Garner's Benny was an errand boy. Later he started a YMCA cou...

Rothman, Benny, 1911-2002

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Benny Rothman was born on 1st June 1911 in Cheetham, Manchester. He won a scholarship to Manchester Central High School for boys but left just as he was about to take his matriculation exam, a job in the motor trade at Tom Garner's was found for him. He had no option, the family was poor, his father had died when he was 12 and he had to help support his widowed mother and family. For his first two years at Tom Garner's Benny was an errand boy. Later he started a YMCA cou...

Amalgamated Engineering Union

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The Union was founded as the Amalgamated Society of Engineers in 1851 by the coming together of a number of separate organisations for mechanics, smiths, millwrights, engineers and machinists. A number of other, mainly local, organisations joined between 1893 and 1915. In 1920 nine other unions (the Steam Engine Makers Society, the United Machine Workers Association, the United Kingdom Society of Amalgamated Smiths and Strikers, the Associated Brassfounders, Turners, Fitters, Finish...

Altrincham and Sale Trades Council

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