Peter J. Summers, who in the 1970s managed the development of the first phases of Deeside Industrial Park has died at the age of 92.
Mr Summers was the eldest son of Sir Richard Summers and the grandson of Harry Summers, who with his brothers, brought the family firm of John Summers and Sons to Shotton on Deeside in the late 1890s, to produce galvanised steel sheets. That business, now owned by Tata Steel, is still going strong after 125 years.
He joined John Summers and Sons in 1954 having graduated in languages at Cambridge and joined the company board in 1960 with responsibility for staff training and communications.
Following nationalisation of the steel industry in 1967, he held several senior personnel positions in the new British Steel Corporation still based at Shotton.
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In 1973, BSC revealed wide-ranging rationalisation plans which included the closure of iron and steelmaking and other operations at Shotton with the loss of up to 8,000 jobs. Two years later, Peter joined a new organisation, BS (Industry) Limited, set up to attract new industries to steelmaking areas and create new jobs for redundant steelworkers.
Peter was to prove highly successful in his role as Industry Co-ordinator in the north-west. Within a year of his appointment, work had started on a new 376 acre industrial park on the site of the former Sealand aerodrome close to the Flintshire-Cheshire border and once owned by the Summers family.
It is now one of the largest industrial estates in the UK with over 400 companies employing 9,000 people.
In 1978, Iceland Frozen Foods became the first company to re-locate to the new park. By the following year 17 advance factories with job prospects for over a thousand people had been let.
In 1982 Peter became managing director of Deeside Enterprise Trust, a private company set up to continue the work of BS (Industry) in the area, with support from the Welsh Development Agency and Flintshire County Council.
In September of that year he was awarded the MBE in recognition of his services to job creation in the region. By the time of his retirement in May 1989 4,400 people were employed in 87 new factories on the park.
His retirement ended a family association with Deeside stretching back to 1896 but Peter maintained contact with old colleagues by helping to organise an annual reunion for retired Shotton Works managers and staff personnel. It ended last year after 42 years because of the Covid pandemic and dwindling support.
Peter, who died at his home at Wettenhall near Winsford, Cheshire, was a man of many interests.
He was an accomplished public speaker, pianist and skier, and a keen gardener with a great passion for azaleas. He attended St. Peters Church, Little Budworth for over thirty years and since moving to Wettenhall had joined the congregation at St. Davids Church.
He is survived by his wife, Gillian, four children, Julie, Stephanie, Jeremy and Tim, six grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Julie is an author, broadcaster and historian best known for the book Jambusters which inspired the TV series Home Fires.
The funeral is a private cremation at Vale Royal Crematorium followed by a service of thanksgiving at St. Marys Church, Acton, Nantwich, at noon on Thursday, March 3. The family have requested no flowers but donations can be made to the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre (BIRD) through the web site of funeral directors, Jacqueline Wilson Independent Funeral Services.
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