Vincit Omnia Industria = Hard Work Conquers All...25 5 27
Bury's Coat of Arms
...Just imagine a boy of 8 9 or 10 who with his playmate Brian weekly getting their knuckles wrapped to encourage them to be more deligent in Primary School whenever riciting a sentense in English from their shared learner, silence reigning only when it came to their desk in Mrs Grundy's class, their matronly Head Mistress? And during the same period getting 2 spellings correct out of 30 the second from the bottom of the class of 32 students my mate Brian bottom!
Well, age 11, when the brighter kids passed their 11+ examinations to enter either the High or Grammar Schools (a selective secondary school that admits students based on merit, typically assessed through an entrance exam called the 11-plus) we, the dregs, continued at our Elton County Secondary School, until aged 13 we got another opportunity to better ourselves, with another entrance exam to the Bury Junior Technical School, on which occasion I succeeded, like my elder brother before me, when the Town's Coat of Arms, depicted above in 1950's Britain, still held sway, and, exceptionally, became our School's Cap Badge too, with its motto: our motto!
Just the other day I re-read my reports from this school which recorded my progress, starting out as 18th in class of a group of 26 boys, and reaching top boy in position number one before regressing to finish 7th after 2 full years with a leaving certificate of Great Credit!
But perhaps more telling that before I left Bury altogether I would work in three of its industries featured on our cap badge: in the order time employed maybe 6 weeks on a steam hammer, as fill-in job, at Webb's Forge forging crank shaftes for ships' Diesil engines; 5 months at the BDA (Bradford Dyers Association) company in Ramsbottom, working on the 3 man complement of one of their stenters finishing cotton textiles, with sizing agents, etc, before the dryer section on which I served as a "Clipman" to ensure the moving cloth was retained each side, as it entered the drying oven working, 11 hour nights from 7 pm to 8am, 5 nights per week, while trying to attend "night school" on my Chemistry HNC (Higher National Chemistry) day course, during Wednesdays 9 00 to 16 30, plus Friday afternoons 13 30 to 16 30, fully filling the the Town addage, but when Hard Work didn't conquer all, because I failed my one or more of my exams, lol. Nevertheless denoted by 2 of John Kay's Flying Shuttles in the third segment of the shield...
Finally with a total number of years of 5 + 1 + 2 + 13, making a total of 20 years to do with Paper-making and related industies, like the year researching Basic and Vat Dyestuffs used for colouring paper amongst other uses.
These represented in the Town's shield by 3 Papyrus plants, as the original fibrous raw materials, these industies were said to be based on. Leaving not the dying ship I was once accused of doing but being invited as Joint Research and Development Directorship by a customer Company, who offered me employmment as I was completing the biggest job I had ever been entrusted to perform, and when instead, on the day I tended my resignation, my reward was to have been a redundancy package in the sum of 13 months' salary paid, at the rate of 21500 pa, as of the 24th December 1987, but which I sensibly declined, thus escaping the clutches of the british money grubbers, who replaced industry with what has followed: a new town coat of arms, devoid of all these industries!
Well, age 11, when the brighter kids passed their 11+ examinations to enter either the High or Grammar Schools (a selective secondary school that admits students based on merit, typically assessed through an entrance exam called the 11-plus) we, the dregs, continued at our Elton County Secondary School, until aged 13 we got another opportunity to better ourselves, with another entrance exam to the Bury Junior Technical School, on which occasion I succeeded, like my elder brother before me, when the Town's Coat of Arms, depicted above in 1950's Britain, still held sway, and, exceptionally, became our School's Cap Badge too, with its motto: our motto!
Just the other day I re-read my reports from this school which recorded my progress, starting out as 18th in class of a group of 26 boys, and reaching top boy in position number one before regressing to finish 7th after 2 full years with a leaving certificate of Great Credit!
But perhaps more telling that before I left Bury altogether I would work in three of its industries featured on our cap badge: in the order time employed maybe 6 weeks on a steam hammer, as fill-in job, at Webb's Forge forging crank shaftes for ships' Diesil engines; 5 months at the BDA (Bradford Dyers Association) company in Ramsbottom, working on the 3 man complement of one of their stenters finishing cotton textiles, with sizing agents, etc, before the dryer section on which I served as a "Clipman" to ensure the moving cloth was retained each side, as it entered the drying oven working, 11 hour nights from 7 pm to 8am, 5 nights per week, while trying to attend "night school" on my Chemistry HNC (Higher National Chemistry) day course, during Wednesdays 9 00 to 16 30, plus Friday afternoons 13 30 to 16 30, fully filling the the Town addage, but when Hard Work didn't conquer all, because I failed my one or more of my exams, lol. Nevertheless denoted by 2 of John Kay's Flying Shuttles in the third segment of the shield...
Finally with a total number of years of 5 + 1 + 2 + 13, making a total of 20 years to do with Paper-making and related industies, like the year researching Basic and Vat Dyestuffs used for colouring paper amongst other uses.
These represented in the Town's shield by 3 Papyrus plants, as the original fibrous raw materials, these industies were said to be based on. Leaving not the dying ship I was once accused of doing but being invited as Joint Research and Development Directorship by a customer Company, who offered me employmment as I was completing the biggest job I had ever been entrusted to perform, and when instead, on the day I tended my resignation, my reward was to have been a redundancy package in the sum of 13 months' salary paid, at the rate of 21500 pa, as of the 24th December 1987, but which I sensibly declined, thus escaping the clutches of the british money grubbers, who replaced industry with what has followed: a new town coat of arms, devoid of all these industries!
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