Bob Lamb
Robert Austin Lamb was born at Leicester in 1941, the son of a railway signalman. His father once worked in the signal box at Woodhead Tunnel. The family moved to Tankersley and Bob Lamb was schooled at Hoyland, Barnsley. Aged eleven, he was introduced to the school’s metalwork shop, where the teacher was from Sheffield and was a former silversmith. His recommendation paved the way at the end of 1956 for Bob to join Mappin & Webb at its Queen’s Road factory. After a six-year appr....
