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Oral Histories


John Heathcoat
The Knitting Together oral history archive contains a number of interviews recorded with people who worked in the knitting industry. Listen to their stories and accounts of life in the industry and hear events from the last hundred years come to life. The full interviews from which the extracts below have been obtained are available from the source listed. The East Midlands Oral History Archive is based at Leicester University and can be contacted on 0116 2525065 and Nottingham Central Library can be contacted on 0115 9152873.
Leicester Technical College

Overseas competition

Closure of Kemptons

Pay and pay rises

Kemptons selling to Marks & Spencer

Dubied machines

Mending the faults

Wartime working

Waiting for the mechanic

Engines and Flywheels

What is a 'Bag Man'?

Piece rates

Many Processes

Boom and Bust

Union Support

A Full Day

Homeworking

Learning the Frames

Sock Making and Griswold Machines

Finding the Wale

Working the Frames

 

 

   
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