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Sunny Saturday
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LondonBelle | Report | 28 Feb 2026 19:41 |
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Child labour ;-) :-D |
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Fly | Report | 28 Feb 2026 19:41 |
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I was a sewing machinist :-D |
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LondonBelle | Report | 28 Feb 2026 19:43 |
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Is that where you got into making things :-) |
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LondonBelle | Report | 28 Feb 2026 19:43 |
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If it was a factory, I bet it doesn't exist now :-( |
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Fly | Report | 28 Feb 2026 19:45 |
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We used to make our own clothes through the week and go out in them on a friday night :-D :-D |
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LondonBelle | Report | 28 Feb 2026 19:45 |
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A perk of the job ;-) :-D |
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Fly | Report | 28 Feb 2026 19:46 |
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The Factory is still there but used for something else not sure what they do :-) |
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LondonBelle | Report | 28 Feb 2026 19:47 |
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Such a shame that our Rag Trade all went overseas :-( |
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Fly | Report | 28 Feb 2026 19:47 |
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I worked for SR Gents we made clothes for M&S and a lot of it came down to Marble Arch :-) |
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Fly | Report | 28 Feb 2026 19:48 |
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Burberrys are still here and a few others :-) |
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LondonBelle | Report | 28 Feb 2026 19:49 |
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I could have bought something you made :-0 :-D :-D |
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Fly | Report | 28 Feb 2026 19:49 |
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You might have ;-) |
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LondonBelle | Report | 28 Feb 2026 19:51 |
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I think when M&S sent things overseas to be made their quality went down and their sizes were awful :-0 |
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Fly | Report | 28 Feb 2026 19:52 |
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They wanted cheap to sell at the same prices :-0 |
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LondonBelle | Report | 28 Feb 2026 19:52 |
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Maddie would have definitely :-D :-D |
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Fly | Report | 28 Feb 2026 19:53 |
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We mostly did skirts :-) |
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LondonBelle | Report | 28 Feb 2026 19:54 |
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It took them years to recover cos lots of customers turned their backs on them :-0 |
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Fly | Report | 28 Feb 2026 19:55 |
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The one near me is just food at the front and it had underwear at the back last time i went in :-) |
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Fly | Report | 28 Feb 2026 19:57 |
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Think I might go out for an hour :-D |
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LondonBelle | Report | 28 Feb 2026 19:57 |
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I think if it wasn't for their food halls and underwear they would have gone into administration years ago :-0 |
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