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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
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