Over the best part of 60 years, my factory, the place where I worked for 34 of those years, provided employment for thousands of local workers in the manufacturing and selling of ladies hosiery and knitwear. With the front entrance of the factory only 200 yards from my home, it was little wonder that I seldom sought to 'look for another job'.
This website is dedicated as a token of thanks to the Management and a tribute to the hundreds of workmates which I encountered, commencing as a lad of 17 and seeking to recover from poliomyletis.
Charlie Davidson showing the features of a new style to Leslie Campbell
and other members of the Sales Team
Margaret Scott, whom I met one week before I started in
Berkshire in 1955, was a Seamer of FF Stockings. We were married on19th March 1960 and enjoyed our 47th Anniversary in 2007.
God has been very good to us.
Join me as we walk through the Galleries and see many of my friends of bygone years. As I run my mind back over the manufacturing procedures, I am in wonder at the fineness of the thread and machinery and of the planning, selling, training and supervision of new workers in the fine guage hosiery industry new to Newtownards.
It has been a great encouragement to have had given to me a substantial input of material for this website from Alex Fetherston, Brian Mackey, Eric Lowry,
Margaret Mathews,
James Brownlie, Geddis Irvine, Tommy Harkness, Kenneth Hughes, Freda Fulton, John Wright, Wallace Wigston and several others.
It is my hope that I will continue to receive more data from more new sources including the Ulster Folk Museum Curator, Cultra.
Please go to the Contact Us page and drop me an email.
