STOP PRESS…….
October 2024
Ann Gill has been in touch and has recognised her mother in one of the photos of the opening of the Stanley factory.
Ann says
“My mam is in the photo, she is in the back row with the straight cut fringe. Her name was Barbara Sayers.
She worked there when the factory was opened in June 1959 when she would have been nineteen. She left two years later to start a family.”
Barbara is seen here in the back row with Lord Lawson the local MP at the opening of the new factory at Stanley on June 18th 1959.
The company was quoted in the local press at the time as having opened the factory largely due to the “faith of the directors in the quality and skill of the work of the Stanley girls” and of course Barbara was one of those highly skilled girls.
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