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Back in 2008 our intrepid Purchasing Manager, Adrian Wherrett successfully climbed Kilimanjaro (all 19,347ft of it), his pack was made only slightly heavier by the Grimshaw Banner he took to unfurl at the top! Well now he is at it again and is just about to head over to Borneo to scale Mount Kinabalu. At [...]

The Kaiser S2 a walking mobile excavator… httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p93QeTcyTDE&feature=related Related articles New JCB (grimshawconstruction.co.uk) Share

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab3ne7MMp7U&feature=related Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health – Frank Gehry. Share

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX1HQ602gEE&feature=related Related articles Grimshaw Group Appoint New Production Director (grimshawconstruction.co.uk) JCB’s ‘record’ Army machine order (bbc.co.uk) JCB stranded at sea as 16ft waves submerge Ryde pier repair site (dailymail.co.uk) Share

Grimshaws are (still) the proud owner of a 1951 Aveling Barford Invicta Roller. Now admittedly it has seen better days but it was pulled out of mothballs last week and started first time – after a lapse of 6 years, now that’s a lot better than my lawnmower performs after one winter. Purchased in 1959 by [...]

Well it has not been easy but a fair number of us have made it into the office again today.  A process aided by a somewhat over enthusiastic boss being prepared to ferry people through the snow! Work numbers have been further boosted by Charlotte Grimshaw (whoose nursery is shut due to frozen water pipes). [...]

That was the year that was……… 52 years ago Grimshaw moved to their new  ‘commodius’ premises on the Tewkesbury Road, Cheltenham and we are still there. The telephone number had 5 digits instead of 6 and the Tewkesbury Road was only a single carriageway with the occassional car on it and even the odd horse [...]

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv2xQ68HLD0&feature=related and I just love the sound of ‘sparticles’! Related articles Atom smasher ramps up chase for ‘God particle’ (mnn.com) Exotic matter could show up in the LHC this year (newscientist.com) Share

Russell Grimshaw the Managing Director of Grimshaw Group recently successfully completed a firewalk.  This involved walking across a 5 metre long bed of red-hot burning wood embers, measuring some 800 degrees Centigrade. Russell took up the challenge not to satisfy work colleagues (!) but to raise funds for the Cardiomyopathy Association (CMA) who support people [...]