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Jeremy Lefever · 23rd Apr 2016, 8:12 pm

Nick.
I've not seen my father (Leslie Charles Lefever) since I was 8 or 9, so we are talking about 50 years! He was born in 1928, & I've never read anywhere that he has passed away. I'll PM you with any details that I have.
Regards

Jeremy Lefever · 18th Oct 2017, 5:11 pm

My father (and my grandfather) ran this company. Someone asked for more info. Attached was his business card at the time which just happened to fall out of a book the other day. This gives the address. (They diversified into other wood products and had steam presses to bend plywood into various shapes. I think they may have made a few of the cabinets of the 'People's Sets)
Regards
Jeremy

Reelman · 18th Oct 2017, 6:04 pm

Goodness! I must have gone passed your family’s premises many, many times when I went to play in Coronation Gardens as a kid back in the 60s.
Small world isn’t it?
Peter

emeritus · 18th Oct 2017, 7:00 pm

There was a programme on TV a couple of weeks ago about a company in that part of London (possibly the last one) that still makes shaped plywood furniture, but I don't recall the name. I had thought that they just shaped sheets of the sort of plywood you can buy from timber merchants, but it turns out that they make up their own plywood from the individual laminations, applying glue to the laminations before pressing the stack of sheets to shape while the glue sets. In the 1960's there were still several woodyards along the Lee Navigation in the area later occupied by the Olympic Park that got their wood delivered by canal barge from the London Docks. All gone now.

23rd Apr 2016, 8:12 pm	#21
Jeremy Lefever Retired Dormant Member Join Date: Mar 2016 Location: Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, UK. Posts: 3	Re: Wooden Cabinet Makers Nick. I've not seen my father (Leslie Charles Lefever) since I was 8 or 9, so we are talking about 50 years! He was born in 1928, & I've never read anywhere that he has passed away. I'll PM you with any details that I have. Regards

18th Oct 2017, 5:11 pm	#22
Jeremy Lefever Retired Dormant Member Join Date: Mar 2016 Location: Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, UK. Posts: 3	Pan Brit (again) My father (and my grandfather) ran this company. Someone asked for more info. Attached was his business card at the time which just happened to fall out of a book the other day. This gives the address. (They diversified into other wood products and had steam presses to bend plywood into various shapes. I think they may have made a few of the cabinets of the 'People's Sets) Regards Jeremy Attached Thumbnails Last edited by Station X; 18th Oct 2017 at 6:12 pm. Reason: Threads merged.

18th Oct 2017, 6:04 pm	#23
Reelman Octode Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Rotherham, South Yorkshire, UK. Posts: 1,720	Re: Pan Brit (again) Goodness! I must have gone passed your family’s premises many, many times when I went to play in Coronation Gardens as a kid back in the 60s. Small world isn’t it? Peter

18th Oct 2017, 7:00 pm	#24
emeritus Dekatron Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Brentwood, Essex, UK. Posts: 5,337	Re: Wooden Cabinet Makers There was a programme on TV a couple of weeks ago about a company in that part of London (possibly the last one) that still makes shaped plywood furniture, but I don't recall the name. I had thought that they just shaped sheets of the sort of plywood you can buy from timber merchants, but it turns out that they make up their own plywood from the individual laminations, applying glue to the laminations before pressing the stack of sheets to shape while the glue sets. In the 1960's there were still several woodyards along the Lee Navigation in the area later occupied by the Olympic Park that got their wood delivered by canal barge from the London Docks. All gone now.