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Can you help date and identify these images
The Old Mansfield Society are looking for help in identifying where these images were taken and the date? can you help ?
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13/09/2021
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The second photo is, I think Sherwood Pit canteen staff. Far left is Audrey, sister of Roy Bradshaw who worked at Sherwood pit, far right back row I think is Sybil, who used to be a neighbour of mine. The managers name could be Mrs Nestor? I might have the wrong name though.
By Mick holmes (09/03/2024)
The second picture looks like Sherwood pit canteen, or at least some off them worked there at one time.
By Mick (08/03/2024)
Top photo Mansfield Shoe Company about 1983 in the Closing room where I worked
By Maxine Boot (12/11/2023)
My husband managed Meridian on Belvedere Street – was a fab place to work at. His mother and father worked there and so did my mum when it was Foister Clay and Ward.
By Tracey Key (11/10/2023)
The factory off Newgate Lane referred to here was in fact on Redcliffe Road and close to Gladstone Street also off Newgate Lane. As a child I recall the commotion outside ‘Foisters’ when workmen were moving heavy machinery in and out of the factory premises. Quite exciting to watch for a young schoolboy back in the fifties. Not to much traffic around back then but the road was often closed for a while anyway.
By Steeve Cee (14/02/2023)
It’s very difficult to pinpoint the location of the pictures, but the picture on the left I think shows overlock machinists in the production of knitwear. The interior of the room – especially the windows – resembles the former Foister Clay and Ward, later Meridian, factory on Belvedere Street, which also had a canteen. They produced knitwear after first under FCW producing fully fashioned stockings in the post war boom in stocking manufacture. They also had a factory off Newgate Lane. Maybe one of the ladies in the pictures might recognise themselves to pinpoint the pictures more accurately.
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The second photo is, I think Sherwood Pit canteen staff. Far left is Audrey, sister of Roy Bradshaw who worked at Sherwood pit, far right back row I think is Sybil, who used to be a neighbour of mine. The managers name could be Mrs Nestor? I might have the wrong name though.
The second picture looks like Sherwood pit canteen, or at least some off them worked there at one time.
Top photo Mansfield Shoe Company about 1983 in the Closing room where I worked
My husband managed Meridian on Belvedere Street – was a fab place to work at. His mother and father worked there and so did my mum when it was Foister Clay and Ward.
The factory off Newgate Lane referred to here was in fact on Redcliffe Road and close to Gladstone Street also off Newgate Lane. As a child I recall the commotion outside ‘Foisters’ when workmen were moving heavy machinery in and out of the factory premises. Quite exciting to watch for a young schoolboy back in the fifties.
Not to much traffic around back then but the road was often closed for a while anyway.
It’s very difficult to pinpoint the location of the pictures, but the picture on the left I think shows overlock machinists in the production of knitwear. The interior of the room – especially the windows – resembles the former Foister Clay and Ward, later Meridian, factory on Belvedere Street, which also had a canteen. They produced knitwear after first under FCW producing fully fashioned stockings in the post war boom in stocking manufacture. They also had a factory off Newgate Lane.
Maybe one of the ladies in the pictures might recognise themselves to pinpoint the pictures more accurately.
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