A MAN whose work as a metal spinner saw him make clocks and sporting trophies, including the Winfield Shield, Bathurst 1000 winners trophy and the Sydney Cup (horseriding), has celebrated his 100th birthday.
Charles Harold Morgan, known as Charlie, was the second of five children to Rachel and Charles John Morgan.
He went to school in Glebe and Bexley but left when he was 14.
Charlie began playing snooker when he was 12 and won the 1930 junior snooker championship.
He attended Central Technical College, Ultimo, and started his apprenticeship with Angus & Coote in the city as a metal spinner.
He worked for Waratah National Products and many items he made have been found in antique shops around NSW.
At his last place of work he made many church items before retiring in 1985. The company needed to look in Britain for someone to replace him.
During World War II, Mr Morgan joined the army and was attached to a radar detection unit. He was posted to Lismore in 1945, where he met Bonnie Hudson. The couple married the next year at St Carthage's Cathedral, Lismore, before moving back to Sydney and living in Bexley, Brighton-Le-Sands and Sylvania.
The couple loved to travel and toured Australia in their campervan. They also visited New Zealand and Europe.
Mr Morgan loves horses and seeing the trophies he made presented at race meetings.
He now lives at Blakehurst Retirement Village. His wife died last year, aged 90.
Mr Morgan has one daughter, Catherine, son-in-law Wayne Armitage, and grandchildren Daniel and Alison.
