Uttoxeter Coope. The last remains of the brewery were demolished in the 1960s to make way for the Maltings shopping precinct and car park. The brewery clock was re-furbished and installed on the town hall in the 2000s. In 1945, Joseph Cyril Bamford founded J C Bamford Excavators Limited in Uttoxeter, now known as JCB. The firm, based in the nearby village of Rocester, is the world's third-largest construction equipment manufacturer. The firm's first vehicle was a tipping trailer made from war-surplus materials, which J. C. Bamford built in a rented lock-up garage in Uttoxeter. The Bamford family had previously started
James Bamford (stunt coordinator) James Bamford (stunt coordinator) James Bamford (born 1967), also known by the nickname "Bam-Bam", is a stunt co-ordinator and stuntman, who works in film and television, and is the current President and on the executive board of Stunts Canada, the oldest and largest organisation of its type in Canada. Bamford was born in Victoria, British Columbia, and presently lives and works out of Vancouver, Canada. Bamford won a Leo Award in 2013 for Best Stunt Co-ordination in a Television Movie for "". Bamford was a stunt coordinator on the movie "Ek Tha Tiger" which won Best Action at the "Times