Gainsborough Silk

Subject: Business and Industry

Gallery: Up to 1970

Catalogue ref: pa1226

Alfred Smith when he started work as a weaver for Reginald Warner”s Gainsborough Silk Company. The date is uncertain, possibly just after WWI.  Warners moved into a former stay and corset factory in Priory Walk in 1906 and finally moved to their present location in the early 1920s. Alfred worked 48 years for the Company and retired in the early 1960s.

 

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