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Wasn't "The Shirt Factory" in the council (BUDC) yard? I can remember the outpouring of girls from there at the end of their shift. It was always a place anyone industrious could get employment. The phrase "she works (worked) at the shirt factory" did have a tiny bit of social stigma in those days, though. It implied that the person might have done better at school. Having said that, it probably paid a lot better than shopworker or clerical jobs. The Rag Trade on TV epitomised this type of work. Work which was steadily eroded by the waves of imports from overseas "sweat shops", but don't get me started on so-called "globalism"! I recall they had a problem with asbestos roofing in the BUDC yard, and some poor worker being killed when the roof didn't support their weight. This might jog someone's memory on the place. I can also remember going into the Barrington establishment to deliver or attend to something, or maybe to seek someone out. At this point in time, I can't remember why I was there, though I have a brief mental image of the offices but not the work floor. It was, I think, a conversion and not a purpose-built factory. Update: Ah, yes, that's it above. Should have scrolled up! Just pointing out the social attitudes (snobbery) of the era, and no downers on the industrious salt-of-the earth people that worked there. A lot of that lingers on in the present day, when the thoroughly brainwashed ex-uni types regard themselves as socially superior and have a right to do everyone's thinking for them!

alan thank you for looking I was not aware of https://nufc-history.co.uk. the search continues lol

In the earl 1960's I don't think I ever went onto Front Street East apart from when me mam would drag me to the Co-op to get school uniform clothes and on the Northumberland Miners Picnic day when the streets were too crowded to see any shop fronts. Late 1960's by the time we got to the bottom end of Front Street East, via Red Lion, Blue Bell, Grapes, Sun Inn, Howard Arms, Market Place Club, Northumberland Arms I would not have recognsed, or remembered anything but would still have managed to get into the Black Bull then the Dun Cow before heading down to Atlee Park for a lie down and snooze. I can't ever remember ever going into the Gardners Arms. As usual I have gone off track of the origal topic

The pic from down Shiney Row of the shirt factory is correct I think, but you could also get to it from the way I said under the Council Offices, just 90 degrees around 😉 The Glove factory was in a double fronted shop with the windows blanked, possibly where PremierExpress/ R&S Convenience Store is, or close by. I think it was a couple of doors away from Hay the butchers shop, I'm talking about over 60 years ago and the East End Front Street isn't recognisable from then as all the shops have changed. I think it may have changed to the Barrington Glove Company when Mr Sharman bought it from the Mautners...

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