Dec 18 2014
Ashtown Tin Box Factory…
An aerial view of the Ashtown Tin Box factory in 1952.
‘We used to head up over Broombridge and walk up along
the canal bank of a summers day to get the metal lids that
were often scattered around the place at the Tin Box Factory.
We would sometimes skim them across the top of the canal
water like Flying Saucers. The sun would make them glitter as
they danced their way across to the railway side. And then when
we got back to our road we’d play the ‘Moul’ with them. We’d lift
the little shore cover that was outside our gate and pitch the lids into
the shore as we stood at the edge of the path. Such a simple idea
and yet it kept us quiet for hours on end…’