Posted by eric n. beatty, 17 February 2014 at 15:08
The fittings plant fronted onto Bruce Street in Oshawa. On Saturdays, as kids we would walk by the open windows and watch the men working in the extreme heat and smells, finishing pipe sections. For 44 years, my grandfather Alexander Joseph Beatty Senior worked in this plant but got little money for his pension. In those days you did your job and kept quiet. Years later my uncle Lyman Beatty was hired as a security guard at the Bruce Street door.
I lived four blocks east of the plant and on a windy day smoke, fumes and airborne soot blew over our neighborhood. The clothes you hung up outside would get dirty. There was always a unique odor from this plant - cutting oil, foundry fumes and human sweat. The plant itself was quite large and it had many hard working people under its roof-line.
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The fittings plant fronted onto Bruce Street in Oshawa. On Saturdays, as kids we would walk by the open windows and watch the men working in the extreme heat and smells, finishing pipe sections. For 44 years, my grandfather Alexander Joseph Beatty Senior worked in this plant but got little money for his pension. In those days you did your job and kept quiet. Years later my uncle Lyman Beatty was hired as a security guard at the Bruce Street door.
I lived four blocks east of the plant and on a windy day smoke, fumes and airborne soot blew over our neighborhood. The clothes you hung up outside would get dirty. There was always a unique odor from this plant - cutting oil, foundry fumes and human sweat. The plant itself was quite large and it had many hard working people under its roof-line.
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