got wrong in case we got out fingers caught in the machine. i left school when i was 15. at one time, it was the thing to do. it was like men going into the shipyards when you left school cos there was that many machining factories. but i think now, i think we are the only one left. that is john barbour s family. that sjohn. that is malcolm. actually, my husband looked exactly like him and my daughter looks exactly like him.
it s hard, because you ve always got to keep focused, make sure there s no faults, make sure you re doing what you re doing right because if it gets all the way down there and it s a fulljacket it ll end up coming all the way back up and it s not the best. all done. been here for seven years. i was an apprentice upstairs for two years, and then i came down here for like five year now. everyone on here s just like family and friends now, i know everybody. they re a bit older than me, so i call them aunties. you are with these people nine hours a day, four days a week, you do feel like family, and when one of them s hurting and one of them, you know, it does get you. i mean, i came back after losing me mam and it was so nice to be back with them. i didn t know any of these girls here when i came here and i ve
got to keep focused, make sure there s no faults, make sure you re doing what you re doing right because if it gets all the way down there and it s a fulljacket it ll end up coming all the way back up and it s not the best. all done. been here for seven years. i was an apprentice upstairs for two years, and then i came down here for like five year now. everyone on here s just like family and friends now, i know everybody. they re a bit older than me, so i call them aunties. you are with these people nine hours a day, four days a week, you do feel like family, and when one of them s hurting and one of them, you know, it does get you. i mean, i came back after losing me mam and it was so nice to be back with them. i didn t know any of these girls here when i came here and i ve
at one time, it was the thing to do. it was like men going into the ship yards when you left school cos there was that many machining factories. but i think now, i think we are the only one left. that is john barbour s family. that sjohn. that is malcolm. actually, my husband looked exactly like him and my daughter looks exactly like him.
john came from cercopershire from a middle class family, and he wanted to go into trade. he came to newcastle because he thought that was far away from cercooperhsire. and he started in a very modest way in victorian england. he made wonderful oilskin coats. he found a location in south shields in the marketplace. he was going to sell to the fisherman, farmers, a whole range of people. well, that s the oil skin clothing. 1908, this is the first one he did. sylkoil. beacon.