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Description

Len Gamble operating the Scheeler knitwear machine at the Manawatu Knitting Mill’s factory in Main Street, Palmerston North. The business was founded in 1888 by John Stubbs.

For more information on the Manawatū Knitting Mills, see White, Jill (2007). "Women at Work in the Manawatū Knitting Mills." Manawatū Journal of History, Vol. 3, pp.20-29.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Public Photograph Collection Bc 112
Date
August 13, 1975
Digitisation ID
2009N_Bc112_BUI_2384
Held In
Coolstore

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manawatu knitting mills,
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The Manawatu Knitting Mills Limited History
Watson & Llewellyn's Union Coach factory & Shoeing Forge, Fitzherbert Avenue
Shoe Store Ltd and Gillespie's Value House, Main Steet
Construction of State Insurance Office, Rangitikei Street
Stylex Drycleaners, Main Street
Repairing shoes at Eeyore's Cobblery shop, Featherston Street
Northern Building Society building opening, The Square
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