Pearsons factory

[dixie dean 0]

can anyone tell me anything about the Pearsons factory in Southwark St?

what was made there and are there any photos on record ?

dixie dean

[Beefsteak 305]

Ayup Dixie , and wekcome along. I don't have any details my self , but have you tried " picture the past" ?? they are very good.

[mick2me 3,033]

Eyup Dixie Dean,

Nah yurve started summat, tell uz if yer get annanser?

[Cliff Ton 10,449]

have you tried " picture the past" ?? they are very good.

I'd never heard of the place before, so I had a look at Pic the Past.

They have a few photos of it - what a surprise - and they refer to it as Pearson's Mill.

Now I've seen where it is, I'd been past the place without knowing anything of its history, but still no clue as to what was made/done there

[Ashley 288]

Think they made pollutants for the river leen lol, or was that the chrome plating place? Seem to recall some fabric producers or dyers? have distant dim memory of lots of large wicker baskets, maybe on castors being took in and out.

[dixie dean 0]

well done one and all, now for the diffo bit, what did it make during WW2 ?

[Ashley 288]

Bomb Craters?

[Paulus 541]

well done one and all, now for the diffo bit, what did it make during WW2 ?

Parachutes????????????

[katyjay 5,090]

Just a guess, but with the word Mill at the end, maybe they made textiles/lace? And a lot of clothing factories during the war changed to making uniforms.

[Ashley 288]

Did they change materials? can't really picture the 6th Airborne Division going in dressed in lace on D Day lol (sorry), off topic, but regarding uniforms, guess who designed and made the german army and nazi uniforms? (also was on trail at nuremberg)

[firbeck 859]

Did they change materials? can't really picture the 6th Airborne Division going in dressed in lace on D Day lol (sorry), off topic, but regarding uniforms, guess who designed and made the german army and nazi uniforms? (also was on trail at nuremberg)

Why not, they certainly wore silk, though only when the parachute landed on top of them

At a guess, as I know he designed his own uniforms, Hermann Goering, though architects do odd things as we know, so perhaps Albert Speer comes into the picture.

[Beefsteak 305]

Why was he on a trail ??

[Ashley 288]

he was into hiking, lol

It was Hugo Boss, In 1931 he became a member of the Nazi party and a sponsoring member ("Fördernde Mitglieder") of the SS. He later became a supplier of uniforms to the SA, SS, Hitler Youth, NSKK and other Party organizations. To meet demand in later years of the war, Boss used about 30 to 40 prisoners of war and about 150 forced laborers, from the Baltic States, Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia and the former Soviet Union.[ According to German historian Henning Kober, the company were “avowed nazis”, Boss was a great admirer of Adolf Hitler and had in 1945 in his apartment a photograph of himself with Hitler taken in the latter's Obersalzberg retreat.

In 1946 a Nuremberg judgement, based on his party membership, his financial support of the SS and the uniforms delivered to the Nazi party Boss was considered both an “activist” and a “supporter and beneficiary of National Socialism”. He was stripped of his voting rights, his capacity to run a business and fined “a very heavy penalty” of 100,000 marks. He died in 1948. But his business survived and was said to be worth £177,000,000 in 1991.

In 1997 American lawyers filed lawsuits in New Jersey on behalf of survivors or their families, for the use of forced workers during the war. Hugo Boss agreed to pay in compensation an amount which was estimated by some sources to be “about 752 000 euros”

[firbeck 859]

Good old Nazis, Albert Speers architectural practice is still in business, thanks to his son, kept on by Speers confession of guilt at Nuremburg which saved his abomnible life, how sad is that, how many people was Speer responsible for killing as slave labour with the Organisation Todt, I doubt whether the current labour force in Das Reich consisting of mainly immigrant workers knows anything about thatis provided by the 'Organisation Todt' though, but who knows, given the amount of immigrant labour in The Fatherland

[Wrinkly Annie 0]

can anyone tell me anything about the Pearsons factory in Southwark St?

what was made there and are there any photos on record ?

dixie dean

See http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/news/Hundreds-fled-Old-Basford-factory-inferno/article-693479-detail/article.html

Geoge Pearson & Sons on Southwark Street, Basford was started by my ancestors. They were Bleachers & Dyers. I've researched the family back to Andrew Pearson, a bleacher born around 1730. The family also owned Rosebery House,Waterford Street, now a Community Mental Health service.

[benjamin1945 16,139]

My Mother worked there in the 50s,she was a Seamstress,the entrance is where/was the Snooker club,in the 50s there was a very small shop called and run by Nellie Bisby,i believe her husband Charlie played for Notts co.

Before bookies were legal she used to operate one from there,my Dad and all my Uncles and Aunts used to use it,and she used to serve us kids with single cigs.Sometime in the early 60s there was a major fire at Pearsons and a man died in it,i believe Pearsons later became part of Spray and Burgess.