Symingtons. Harborough's lost workforce
Details:
- Author(s) Unknown
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2007
- Pages 40pp; illus
- Publisher Market Harborough Local History Group
- Place Published Market Harborough
Topics:
- Name Oral history
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
An outgrowth of the earlier study - Sophie Wright, 'Contours and Cream. From table creams to corsets. The memories of factory workers whose lives were cut, sewn and moulded by the Symington Foundation', 2004. This is a community project which explored and celebrated former employees of two leading Market Harborough businesses, R & W H Symington & Co Ltd and W Symington & Co Ltd. The present publication provides an education pack for young people, transcription of memoirs of former employees, information sheets providing historical profiles of both businesses, etc