Sam Stannah is only 31 but is already feeling the pressure to produce the next generation to lead the family-owned lift business. In a recent blooper reel from a corporate video, his 89-year-old grandfather Brian was filmed telling him “get going, don’t hang about”. Smiling, he points out: “I’ve only been married a few months!”
He is the sixth generation of the family to run the business founded by Joseph Stannah in 1867 as a manufacturer of cranes handling goods off the Thames docks during the Industrial Revolution.
