Johnny Dee
Gray's Richardson rugby team training circa 1940. Two of the local ship yards used to join ranks and form a rugby team. Here they can be seen being put through their paces by Johnny Dee.
Games between Richies and Grays were a feature of the town programme until the 1960s.
More detail »Vertical Boring machine at Richardsons Westgarth being operated by Johnny Dee. It took two days to set up machinery like this so, in the meantime, Johnny Dee used to cut the other men's hair.
He later went on to work in Reeds Corrugated Cases.
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