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LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 28 Feb 2026 19:41

Child labour ;-) :-D

Fly

Fly Report 28 Feb 2026 19:41

I was a sewing machinist :-D

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 28 Feb 2026 19:43

Is that where you got into making things :-)

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 28 Feb 2026 19:43

If it was a factory, I bet it doesn't exist now :-(

Fly

Fly Report 28 Feb 2026 19:45

We used to make our own clothes through the week and go out in them on a friday night :-D :-D
We were allowed to use the machines in our own time :-)

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 28 Feb 2026 19:45

A perk of the job ;-) :-D

Fly

Fly Report 28 Feb 2026 19:46

The Factory is still there but used for something else not sure what they do :-)

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 28 Feb 2026 19:47

Such a shame that our Rag Trade all went overseas :-(

Fly

Fly Report 28 Feb 2026 19:47

I worked for SR Gents we made clothes for M&S and a lot of it came down to Marble Arch :-)

Fly

Fly Report 28 Feb 2026 19:48

Burberrys are still here and a few others :-)

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 28 Feb 2026 19:49

I could have bought something you made :-0 :-D :-D

Fly

Fly Report 28 Feb 2026 19:49

You might have ;-)

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 28 Feb 2026 19:51

I think when M&S sent things overseas to be made their quality went down and their sizes were awful :-0

Fly

Fly Report 28 Feb 2026 19:52

They wanted cheap to sell at the same prices :-0

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 28 Feb 2026 19:52

Maddie would have definitely :-D :-D

Fly

Fly Report 28 Feb 2026 19:53

We mostly did skirts :-)

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 28 Feb 2026 19:54

It took them years to recover cos lots of customers turned their backs on them :-0

Fly

Fly Report 28 Feb 2026 19:55

The one near me is just food at the front and it had underwear at the back last time i went in :-)

Fly

Fly Report 28 Feb 2026 19:57

Think I might go out for an hour :-D

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 28 Feb 2026 19:57

I think if it wasn't for their food halls and underwear they would have gone into administration years ago :-0