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The Industry & Me

The knitting industry has played an important part in the lives of many people in the East Midlands. This section provides access to interviews and photographs that record personal experiences of the industry.

Categories in The Industry & Me

Oral Histories The Knitting Together oral history archive contains a number of interviews recorded with people who worked in the knitting industry. Listen to their stories and accounts of life in the industry and hear events from the last hundred years come to life. To hear the full interviews from which the extracts have been obtained, you can contact the organisation listed as the extract source. The East Midlands Oral History Archive is based at Leicester University and can be contacted on 0116 2525065 and Nottingham Central Library can be contacted on 0115 9152873. The Industry in Photos During 2003 the Knitting Together project held a photograph appeal for members of the public to send in their photographs of the East Midlands knitting industry. Everyday factory activities, annual dinners and colleagues and relatives at work are recorded in the photographs found in this section.

Timeline

• Introduction
• Origins of the industry 1589-1750
• Enterprise and innovation 1750-1810
• In the doldrums 1810-1850
• The advent of factories 1820-1900
• Boom time and heyday 1860-1960
• Mergers and takeovers 1960-Present
• The Marks & Spencer effect 1900-present
• Globalisation and a changing industry 1970-Present