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Nora Nightingale

The Touch…….

January 2025                                     ...

She deserves Pinkham gloves

Merry Christmas

From the mid 1950s this magazine advert gives some sense of the seasonal nature of glove manufacturing in this decade....

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The name’s Bond…….

December 2024                                     ...

NEWS CHRONICLE

There are places I remember

November 2024   Clive Pinkham, a great grandson of William and Rebecca Pinkham has recently re-discovered some interesting photographs from...

June 1959 opening

STOP PRESS…….

October 2024   Ann Gill has been in touch and has recognised her mother  in  one of the photos of...

Ida aged 21 in 1940

They don’t make…….

October 2024 .......girls or gloves like these anymore     Two pairs of beautiful Pinkham gloves found their way to ...

Velvet and rayon blouse

Quality is never an accident….

September 2024   … it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skilful execution"   ...

Ladder proof Nylon

Timeless of course

August 2024   Another very unusual pair of Pinkham gloves, this time from the 1950s has found its way to...

How do you explain

Ungloved cheat

July 2024 Of its time, this is an interesting postcard topic

From RAF to BSA

June 2024 One of the finds of the year is this pair of Pinkham silk glove liners which belonged to Gordon L. Bartlett (1933...