From Mansfield’s Metal Box to Kirkby’s Meridian, to Synseal – the area has had a huge number of factories employing thousands of workers over the years. Factories played a big part in our industrial past.
1. Meridian, Kirkby
Do you recognise this Kirkby worker from 1973? Photo: Chad
2. Fairbrothers
Mansfield Fairbrothers Factory Moulding Room. Photo: Chad
3. Richard Roberts knitwear factory
1985 and Kirkby's Richard Roberts knitwear factory. Photo: Chad
4. Meridian
Kirkby's Meridian factory in the seventies. 1973. Photo: Chad