Tribute to Fakenham firefighter and engineering firm founder
He went to work for FMC in Fakenham, before moving to Ross Foods. He also signed up to become a member of the retained fire service, where he served for 25 years. It meant parties might be missed and days out cancelled when the bell rang, but his family said he was a devoted and loving husband, dad, father-in-law and grandad. In 1975 when there were redundancies at Ross Foods, he made the decision to include himself in those and with his redundancy money he started G Pope Engineering in his shed. George Pope was well known in Fakenham, working as a firefighter and establishing Wensum Enginee...
Source: edp24.co.uk