Wigan Album
Brown and Haigh Clothing Factory
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Photo: Keith Fox
Item #: 12513
Reg (or Reggie) Moss, who signed this form, was the father of the Coronation Street actress Jennifer Moss.
Reggie Moss hired me as an apprentice Tailors Cutter.His wife Madam Moss gave Elocution lessons. The lived on Wigan Lane,at the top of the hill on the left side.
my dad worked es a tailor at brown and haigh in the 1940s and early 1950s i believe, his name was frank leonard- does anyone remember him by any chance?
Who were the parents of Helen Adamson? Some of my Adamson relatives came from Rectory Rd.
Parents of Helen Adamson, Alice & William, lived at 47 Rectory Road.
Thank you for that Keith. I will follow it up. I am trying to find any of my relatives still living. Was Helen your mum?
My grandad was Robert Adamson born 1892.
Helen was my mum, Adamsons family grave is in Holy Trinity, Rectory Road.
Have you looked on the 1901 1911 census Keith.
Wm lived at 92 Rectory Rd. My mum did a lot of the family tree from the grave stones about 30 years ago.I know there are other Adamson families than ours. Was Wm son of Mary and John?
My Mum Eva (Topping) worked at Brown & Haigh until she married my Dad as a Hand Finisher on suits. Women then usually gave up work on getting married. Alec Harrison, a neighbour, also worked there.
MY MOTHER WORKED HERE IN 1940'S ONWARD AS A HAND FINISHER- HAND SEWED BUTTON HOLES IN COATS FOR EXPORT MARKET/ AMERICA- BERTHA WOODS ( NEE ASHURST) B. 1908
ALSO MY AUNT ISABEL ASHURST B. 1905 WHO WAS CUTTER
My mum Marjorie Edgar nee Bolton worked at Brown and Haigh along with her Auntie May Platt nee Bragg
I worked at Brown & Haigh in early 1960s, my first job!
Helen Adamson was one of my mother's reletives, I never knew this was on here,Fantastic.
I started work here March 1964, worked in the ladies pressing room passing the clothing to go out, also worked the two Reece button hole Machine’s, then matched the button and fir colliers for the finishers to sew on. Met my husband who worked in the cutting room Leslie Judson , left in 1967 to have my first baby.
My Dad was a tailor at brown and haighs clothing 1940-1950s he met my mother there her maiden name Doris Heaton