The workers at the Gainsborough Silk Company, probably taken in the early 1950s.

Front row L to R: B Younger, Maud Allenton, D Younger, Flo Diggins, Dora ?, D Golding.

Second row back L to R: Fred Pilgrim, Fred Mills, June ?, Pauline Smith, Olive Smith, M Diggins, Len Miles, Basil Diggins, Alfred Smith* (arms folded.)

Back row: Len Brown, Joe Bitten, Rita Younger, Peter King ,Doreen Stead, G Goody, Ernie Shaw (glasses), Len Allenton.

Images supplied in 2021 by Linda Dale. Names identified by her mother Pauline Smith ( middle row, starred) but only after many years had passed so some names, spellings etc may be inaccurate. Alfred Smith also features as a young man in image pa1226