Petit and Fairbanks sewing factory Christmas Dinner, Eccleshall
Petit and Fairbanks small sewing factory produced clothes. The factory was located on Church Grove, but closed in the early 1970s. Today the building is a private residence.
Mr Fairbanks and Mr Petit ...
Petit and Fairbanks sewing factory Christmas Dinner, Eccleshall
Petit and Fairbanks small sewing factory produced clothes. The factory was located on Church Grove, but closed in the early 1970s. Today the building is a private residence.
Mr Fairbanks and Mr Petit ...
Petit and Fairbanks sewing factory New Year's Dance, Eccleshall
Petit and Fairbanks small sewing factory produced clothes. The factory was located on Church Grove, but closed in the early 1970s. Today the building is a private residence.
Factory staff pictured ...
Petit and Fairbanks sewing factory staff, Eccleshall
Some of the workers at Petit and Fairbanks sewing factory, pictured outside the factory on Church Grove. the factory closed in the early 1970s. Today the building is a private residence.
From left ...
Petit and Fairbanks Sewing factory, Eccleshall
Petit and Fairbanks small sewing factory produced clothes. Standing at the back is the supervisor, Mrs Skerratt. Note the pin-ups on the back wall.
The factory was located on Church Grove, but closed ...
Petit and Fairbanks Sewing Factory, Eccleshall
Petit and Fairbanks small sewing factory produced clothes. Standing top left behind the machinists is the supervisor, Mrs Skerratt.
It was located on Church Grove, but closed in the early 1970s. ...
Portland Mills, Portland Street, Leek
This is the Portland Street frontage of the Portland Mills of A.J. Worthington & Co. Ltd. Portland Street connects Ashbourne Road with Buxton Road. The big metal framed windows were inserted in the late ...
Portrait of Mountford Fynney, Leek
Mr Fynney was a Silk Manufacturer. He was born at Endon 1814, but lived for most of his life at Lowe Hill House in Leek. His wife, Mary, farmed land in that area. Mountford Fynney died at the age of 68 ...
Portrait of Mr. Gilbert Wardle with falcon, Leek
Gilbert Charles Wardle was born in 1862, and was one of the fourteen children born to Sir Thomas and his wife Elizabeth. He was their second son, but the first surviving boy, his elder brother Herbert ...
Portrait of Mrs Mary Broster, Leek area
Mrs Broster was the wife of William Broster, the owner of Waterloo Mill. Mr Broster employed 63 women and 40 men in 1881. The business was taken over in the second half of the 20th century by Lux Lux ...
Portrait of Silas Gibson, Leek
Silas Gibson was born in Leek in 1793. He was a silk manufacturer, who lived in Queen Street and latterly at Wall Hill with his son, Silas Jnr., also a silk manufacturer. Mr Gibson Snr. died in 1887, ...
Portrait of Sir Arthur Nicholson, Leek
Arthur Nicholson was born in Leek on July 15th 1842. He was educated at Leek Grammar School, before joining the firm, 'Brough, Nicholson & Co.', where his father Joshua was one of the partners. On 20th ...
Priory Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme
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Recruitment Poster for Silk Piecers, Leek
Poster advertising vacancies at J. & J. Brough, Nicholson & Co., for girls of 11 and above.
Richard Cooper and Co. employees, The Wharf, Uttoxeter
Richard Cooper & Co., brought their corsetry and brassiere manufacturing business to Uttoxeter in 1890. The factory was housed in the old canal warehouse. This photograph is thought to have been taken ...
Rocester Cotton Mill
A view of the Cotton Mill at Rocester, showing the long east range built in about 1782 by Richard Arkwright. It was the major local employer until it closed in 1990. It was then purchased by JCB Excavators ...
Scarf boxing, Job White & Sons Ltd., Compton Mill, Leek
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Shannon's Mill, Lichfield Street, Tamworth
A front view of Shannon's Mill, which was a clothing mill. The mill was originally built by Thomas Cooke senior.