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H0102 Glove Makers
Old Occupations; an insight into the importance of the industry in Great Torrington and the surrounding villages. Trade directories for the eighteenth century highlight the size of the glove making industry and the large number of female operatives in the manufacturing towns and surrounding countryside. The industry not only had the respectability that comes with long establishments, but a universality that touched most of the glove making towns. Outworking villages and townswomen drawing work from the cutting out shops in the nineteenth century was typical of the industry, and found in the important gloving centres of Worcester, Yeovil in Somerset and Great Torrington in North Devon.
Owner/Source | Chris Champion Family Archive |
Date | 14 Jan 2021 |
File name | H0102 CFH-Glove-Makers.pdf |
File Size | 64.03k |
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