Dewhirsts Trip to Blackpool, April 17 1947 - RCF00139

Thanks to Nigel Lloyd and Hebden Bridge Times of 18th July 1997 we have this information:

Thanks to readers Mr Jack Collinge, who together with his wife, Thelma, is pictured on the photo, repeated right, and Mr Glynne Lloyd, both of Mytholmroyd, the scene has been established as Hill’s Restaurant, Blackpool, where staff had assembled either before or after the bun fight!
Dewhirst’s, based at what is now Co-op Food Fair’s warehouse, Central Street, was one of more than 30 sewing shops in Hebden Bridge, we are informed. At the time of the outing the owner was Mr Dennis Hartley and Mr Harold Crossley was the manager.

Mr Lloyd, who worked at Dewhirst’s as a cutter from 1949 to ’58, remembered that after the factory closed in 1974 many of the lady workers – including his own wife, Sylvia, who was a machinist – continued to meet on a regular basis for chats about “the good, old days!”.
Mr Collinge was a machine tackler and following his demob from the Army, worked at Dewhirst’s from 1946 until 1958.

Staff of Dewhirst’s, Hebden Bridge, on an outing to Blackpool, have been identified as follows: Alice Greenwood, Mona Ackroyd, George Henry Greenwood, George English, Harold Crossley, Jim Stuttard, Harold Greenwood, Willis Greenwood, Tony Walton, Arnold Sunderland, Jack Sutcliffe, Jack Dewhirst and Peter Greenwood. Second row down, left to right: Jack Collinge, Derek Wilcock and Ronnie Mason. Third row down, left to right: Gladys Greenwood, Mary Hartley, Nellie Horner, Mrs Simpson, unknown, Mrs Uttley, Mrs Cockroft, Martha Smith, Lilian Greenwood, Edna Horsfall, Alice Calvert, Doris Sutcliffe, Margaret Huggins, Mrs Derek Wilcock, May Sunderland or Sutcliffe, Alice Tasker and Joan Mason. Fourth row down, left to right: Bessie Bowe, Mary Marsland, Mrs Dickinson, believed to be Lily (surname unknown), Maggie Sellars, Mrs English, Nellie Powell, Mary Simpson, Mrs Sellars, Nellie Hemm, travel agent John Henry Greenwood, who organised the outing, and Hilda Eastwood. Second row from front, left to right: Joan Cassidy, Thelma Collinge, Minnie Riley, Sheila Guy, Joyce Walker, Joan Robertshaw, Florrie Simpson and Annie Gill. Front row, left to right: Alice Mason, Freda (surname unknown), Betty (surname unknown), Margaret Greenwood, Doreen Goodman, Kevin Harwood, who was the odd-job boy, Mary Hayhirst and Alice Stansfield.

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