freckles 196 Posted June 7, 2017 Report Share Posted June 7, 2017 Next to hooters is a large factory but for the life of me i can't remember what it made. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted June 7, 2017 Report Share Posted June 7, 2017 It's now apartments and known as the Hicking Building because it was owned by Hicking Pentecost, but I can't remember exactly what they did. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted June 7, 2017 Report Share Posted June 7, 2017 It was a hosiery and textile factory. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,869 Posted June 7, 2017 Report Share Posted June 7, 2017 Knickers. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,089 Posted June 7, 2017 Report Share Posted June 7, 2017 Bleachers, dyers and finishers of textiles also. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
freckles 196 Posted June 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2017 I ought to have realised that I was a machinist up Peveril Street.any a gusset as sewn in knickers.M Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,268 Posted June 8, 2017 Report Share Posted June 8, 2017 Freckles - Did you work at Beales? Several of my family worked there. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
freckles 196 Posted June 10, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2017 I did indeed work there as a flatlocker from 1962 to1970,so I was still there when it changed its name to Marathon Knitear. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Shaza 1 Posted June 10, 2017 Report Share Posted June 10, 2017 Old man Pentecost used to go and swim in the open air baths on the Embankment every morning (my dad did the same as a young man) and he had his chauffeur wait for him with his bathrobe and a thermos of hot tea for when he got out 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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