There’s a red brick factory, I think it’s a sports place now.
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Or something, and it was near st. Stephens primary school.
(Ok)
And that was, and across the road there used to be another factory. One was Elizabeth Mill and Edward Mill.
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Edward Mill is the one that’s left and that’s where I started work.
(Ah, ok)
I worked in Edward Mill which was the oldest one.
(Ok)
And we made, oh, various things, we mad jumpers and our department was called. That was like woven material, y’know like, what would you say, y’know you get a length of cloth and its cut out but then, because it was a three story, on the second one they’d got knitting machines. And they knitted lengths like a jumper size but just it had still got to be cut out.
(Ok)
And um, and that stuff was used in Edward Mill. In the department I went to work in, I was the dispatch clerk.
(Right)
Now if this isn’t the sort of thing you want then stop me.
(No, this is perfect, its really giving me an understanding of individual roles)
Ok, well in our section we made wooden scarves and they were knitted in a long tubular strip. You couldn’t say it was wool but it was very soft yarn. And they were made for British Home Stores.
They’ve gone now haven’t they.
(They’ve been gone a while now)
I mean I always say, if I got a pound for every scarf handled, I should be a millionaire!