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Old Photographs: Beavens’ Tannery
Holt, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
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Beavens’ leather factory in The Midlands, Holt
Management and workers
Management, mainly Beaven family members, in about 1948
A school group from Trowbridge on a tour of the factory being shown processes in preparing hides by Ray Stillman, factory manager
Beavens’ was well known for making leather gloves. Women sewing the gloves on foot-powered machines in 1949, shortly before the glove department closed
Beavens also had a department that handled wool; a delivery of large sacks of fleeces being unloaded from a lorry by hand-operated crane
An excursion to Portsmouth for workers and their families from Holt Junction railway station in 1905
The firm’s bicentenary celebration dinner