Photograph taken in 1937 at Mathers number 2 weaving shed, Wapping Street, Halliwell, celebrating the coronation of King George VI. The factory closed down later that year.

My mother, Kathleen Owen (now Almond), is pictured first from the right and helping to put up the celebratory decorations. She started at the factory from leaving school at 14 years of age, and worked there for 4 years until the factory closure, and then went on to work at Henry Crossley Packaging Temple Road.