Barbara Helen Enock (née Reader) (1920-1993).

Date of marriage: 1947.
Place of marriage: Hampstead, London, England.

Barbara was Graham's secretary.

Anthony Guy Graham Enock
(1948-)

Arabella Jane Graham Enock
(1955-)

1898-1903 - 20 (39 from 1902), Church Road, Willesden, London, England.

Demolished c1967.

1911-1916 - 21, Queen Elizabeths Walk, Stoke Newington, London, England.

1916-1919 - 12, Heathland Road, Stoke Newington, London, England.

House demolished c1954, now Heather Lodge.

1921 - 3, Paget Road, Stoke Newington, London, England.

1922-1923 - 3, Chardmore Road, Stamford Hill, London, England.

Demolished late 1970s/early 1980s.

1925-1935 - 1, Coniston Road, Stamford Hill, London, England.

1935-1945 - "Fairways", Pine Grove, Totteridge, Hertfordshire, England.

"Clearly my father’s business prospered because in about 1937 he and my mum designed a new home in Totteridge, Herts." - Wendy Thomas

"We have carried on without a break at Fairways + feel most glad that we decided on this course last year. We have converted the dining room into a dormitory + reinforced it with 10" by 5" girders + 6" pipe columns mounted on 6' x 2' x ¾' thick rubber lined steel pipe columns + it gives me a great sense of security when the planes buzz around at night." - Graham Enock 1941

1946-1949 - 48, Belsize Court, Wedderburn Road, Hampstead Green, London.

1949-1957 - The White House, Sparrows Herne, Bushey, Hertfordshire, England.

Demolished in 2013, replaced by flats.

1957-1958 - 19, Hill Crest, Potters Bar, Hetfordshire, England.

1958-1972 - 25, Camlet Way, Barnet, London, England.

1976-1985 - "Scarning Hall", Dereham Road, Scarning, Norfolk, England., England.

Thursday, 14th January, 1909 - Tuesday, 30th July, 1912 - Ackworth School, Pontefract Road, Ackworth, Pontefract, England.

Admit number: 12053.

Agents: George Bennington and M. A. Harrison.

"Graham was educated at Ackworth School, I think that it was run by Quakers." - Wendy Thomas

c1913-1925 - Arthur G. Enock & Co. Ltd., Thane Works, Fountayne Road, Broad Lane, Tottenham, London, England.

Apprenticed as a refrigerating engineer. Trained at the West of Scotland Agricultural College.

"Graham eventually went into his father’s business as an engineer. They manufactured dairy machinery and equipment and it sold all over the world." - Wendy Thomas

"In 1925 his father (Guy) sold out the business to ‘United Dairies’ and Graham along with it! Naturally my father objected to all this happening over his head and promptly left and started up his own business : Graham Enock Mfg. Co Ltd. Or ‘GEM’ . ( Both Guy and Graham were consummate engineers and inventors and had many patents to their names) Graham thrived in the dairy world and soon his machinery was selling all over the world and he travelled quite a lot in connection with it." - Wendy Thomas

1925-1966 - Graham-Enock Manufacturing Co. Limited

Managing Director.

Premises:

1925-1972 - Margaret Street Works, Windus Road, Stamford Hill, London, England.

Margaret Street Works - 1933 - image taken from Britain from Above

Pasteurising, refrigerating, washing and filling plant.

Demolished early 1980s.

c1968-1972 - Stephenson Way, Thetford, Norfolk, England.

Also had offices at 50, Wellington Street, Glasgow and 68, Waterloo Road, Bramhall, and a factory in Edinburgh.

Timeline

1933 - Baker Perkins acquired a 28.5% holding.

1939-1945 - "Graham’s factory was compulsorily turned over to manufacturing munitions and all the dairy work had to cease. I won’t moan on about the war, but it was tough for Graham because he had to arrange and take part in a nightly watch on the factory, because of bombing and incendiaries, and also take his share of being an air raid warden at home." - Wendy Thomas

c1966 - Opened new factory on Stephenson Way, Thetford, Norfolk, where washing and filling plants and mechanical handling systems were manufactured.

Photographs and plans of the Thetford factory can be viewed on the London Picture Archive by clicking the following link:

https://www.londonpicturearchive.org.uk/search-results?key=VXsiUCI6eyJ0YXgiOjUsInQiOlsxMTAwNl19fQ&WINID=1727651473194

1966 - Dawson and Barfos bought company for £300,100.

Image taken from The Guardian - 15th June 1966

Post Buyout

1973-1982 - Vickers-Dawson

Dawson and Barfos acquired by Vickers Limited Engineering Group.

Gallery

Graham-Enock 21st Anniversary Programme - 19th January 1946 - Front Page

Graham-Enock 21st Anniversary Programme - 19th January 1946 - Inner Pages

Graham-Enock 21st Anniversary Programme - 19th January 1946 - Back page

Graham-Enock - some of the 'Old Guard' (standing L. to R.) F. Claydon, J. Robson, G. E. Wood, W. Sindle, L. George, B. Foreman, A. E. Messenger, G. Edwards, H. G. Wheeler, A. Fairbrother, T. Washer, H. Burgess (sitting L. to R.) F. D. Turner, F. Horat, H. W. Longville (Director), A. Graham Enock (Managing Director), George W. Wheeler (Director), Samuel Potts (Director), H. E. Goldsmith, H. H. Coles

Image taken from The Province - 5th April 1948

Corps: British Red Cross Society & Order of St. John.
Theatre of war: France.
Medals: Victory, British and Star.

"During the 1st World War he was an ambulance driver at the ‘Front’ (Quakers don’t bear arms) and was handy with motors." - Wendy Thomas

Wendy Thomas

“I realise that I saw more of my father than my sisters did, because I did indeed join his Firm as a Bacteriologist in the Technical Service, (we followed up new installations to ensure that they were both mechanically and bacteriologically doing their stuff) in fact once Graham had left home I was the only one who had any contact with him. Unfortunately this eventually caused me to leave the Firm because I was so torn between him and my mother,, that I was heading for a breakdown.”

“BUT, one day, May 19th 1949, a colleague was detailed to call on Wendy to inform her that Peter had been killed whilst on duty........Even now it’s very hard to write this but the point I’m making is that all my families, friends and acquaintances rallied round with condolences and help and love, but with one exception: not a word from Graham.”

“Graham not only contacted his stricken daughter but visited her whilst on business in Wales. Amazingly this was a ‘secret’ visit and not for Barbara to know about. It’s hard to understand how a man I knew of as strong and competent could allow his wife to have such dominance over him. His visit was so helpful and kind and, as always, he had very good advice, to say nothing of a large cheque (but not for Barbara to know about!). He brought a smile to my lips when he mildly chided me for now having 6 children. I had to point out that he also had 6 children!”

“I only saw him once again, when he was ‘allowed’ to visit me, but I believe that he continued to work from home on various assignments from the Dairy Trade, he was undeniably a very skilled and ingenious draughtsman and understood very well how a large dairy worked.”

Date of Probate: 19th July 1985
Gross value of Estate: £61,789
Net value of Estate: £60,394

This is the last Will AND TESTAMENT of me ARTHUR GRAHAM ENOCK of Scarning Hall Scarning near Dereham in the County of Norfolk
1. I REVOKE all former Wills and testamentary documents AND DECLARE this is to be my last Will
2. I APPOINT my wife BARBARA HELEN ENOCK and DENIS CHARLES HUTCHISON of 7 & 8 King's Bench Walk Temple in the City of London Solicitor or if he shall predecease me or shall die before having proved this my Will or shall renounce probate thereof then ROGER AYTON HUTCHISON of 7 & 8 King's Bench Walk aforesaid Solicitor to be the EXECUTORS AND TRUSTEES of this my Will and they or the survivors of them or other the Trustees for the time being hereof are hereinafter called 'my Trustees’
3. I BEQUEATH to my son Anthony my gold Cigarette case to my daughter Arabella Jane my five hundred shares in Clifford Dairies and to my wife Barbara Helen Enock the remainder of my personal chattels as defined by the Administration of Estate Act 1925
4. I BEQUEATH to each of my four elder daughters Josephine Lubelski Rosalind de Rivas Gwendolen Thomas and Valerie Jones the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds (£250) and desire to record that they have benefited during my lifetime from the very full provisions made by me for my first wife
5. I DEVISE AND BEQUEATH all my real and personal estate and effects not hereby otherwise disposed of to my Trustees Upon Trust to sell call in and convert the same into money with power in their discretion to postpone such sale calling in and conversion and after payment thereout of my debts and funeral and testamentary expenses to stand possessed of the residue thereof and of all parts of my estate for the time being unsold (hereinafter called 'my residuary estate') Upon Trust for my wife absolutely if she shall survive me by the period of one calendar month
6. IF my wife shall predecease me or shall not survive me by the period aforesaid my Trustees shall stand possessed of my residuary estate upon the following trusts:-
(a) Upon Trust as to one half thereof for my son Anthony absolutely and as to the other half thereof for my daughter Arabella Jane absolutely Provided always that if either of my said children shall die before me leaving a child or children who shall attain his or her majority such child or children shall take by substitution and if more than one in equal shares the share of my residuary estate which his her or their parent would have taken if he or she had survived me and attained a vested interest Provided also that if the trusts declared half by this paragraph shall fail as to either/of my residuary estate then the same shall accrue to and be added to the other half and be held in trust accordingly
(b) If my residuary estate shall not vest absolutely in my said son and my said daughter Arabella Jane or one of them or his or her children as aforesaid then subject as aforesaid and subject to the exercise of any statutory powers for the time being vested in my Trustees the same shall be held in trust for my four elder daughters hereinbefore mentioned in equal shares absolutely Provided always that if any of my said elder daughters shall die before attaining a vested interest in possession leaving a child or children such child or children shall take if more than one equally between them the share which his or her or their parent would have taken if living
7.(a) IN the application to the trusts hereof of the statutory power of maintenance given to the Trustees by Section 31 of the Trustee Act 1925 the proviso to sub-section (1) of that section shall not apply and shall be deemed to be omitted and clause (1) of sub-section (1) of the said section shall be read as if the words 'be considered in their uncontrolled opinion by my trustees to be reasonable' were substituted for the words 'be reasonable'
(b) THE statutory power of advancement shall apply to the trusts hereof
8. THE income of my residuary estate however invested shall as from my death be applied as if the same were the income of authorised investments thereof and no income of my residuary estate received after my death shall be apportioned to or treated as capital
9. MONEYS liable to be or requiring to be invested under this my Will may be invested in such investments as my Trustees shall from time to time in their absolute discretion think fit
10. THE said Denis Charles Hutchison or Roger Ayton Hutchison and any other Trustee being a Solicitor or other person engaged in any profession or business shall be entitled to charge and be paid all professional or other charges for any business or act done by him or his firm in connection with the trusts hereof whether or not being of a nature requiring to be done by a Solicitor or other professional person or a person engaged in such business
IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 23rd day of June One thousand nine hundred and eighty three