East Midlands’ textile industry locations
Discover where the East Midlands’ textile industry once thrived through maps, factory locations and stories of the workplaces that shaped local communities.
Pretty Polly / Aristoc in Belper
Photos of the site today
Viyella, Hucknall
Photos of the interior of Viyella Hucknall during the 1960s
Nylatex site 2008
Photos of the site being demolished
Daks Simpson. Park Street, Lenton
Photos shared with us at the Loughborough roadshow of Daks Simpson, Park Street, Lenton.
Astills Fine Lace. Bridge Mills Long Eaton. 1970s
Photos shared with us at the Lakeside Textile Tales roadshow in Nottingham. These are of Astills Fine Lace, Bridge Mills in Long Eaton taken in the 1970s.
Ruddington Makers. Cooper and Roe Photographs
Station works . Ruddington D Department. New extension 1934. Cutting Out Department. Credit: Ruddington Frameworkers Museum
Mansfield Factories
Did you work at Coats Viyella, Courtaulds or Crystal Knitwear or any other textile company in the area? We’d love to see your photos.
Here are some of the photos shared with us from the textile factories in and around Mansfield.