Remember When: Pelaw shirt factory in the late 1980s - then …
WEBSep 16, 2014 — Pelaw Shirt Factory, which had employed generations of workers, was demolished in 2011. The main picture comes from the collection of Norman Dunn.
Pelaw - Wikipedia
WEBOnly one of the original CWS buildings – the Cabinet Factory – is extant. The Cabinet Factory in Bill Quay, which later became a major Brentford Nylons plant, has been redeveloped, now housing Stonehills Business Park. The last factory to be demolished was the Shirt Factory, the site having since been redeveloped in to a supermarket. [2]
Then and Now: Pelaw, Gateshead, in the 1920s - Chronicle Live
WEBMay 12, 2018 — The well-known Pelaw Shirt Factory, which had made attire for troops during World War II and employed 150 workers, was one of last standing as the new millennium dawned.
CWS Works, Pelaw | Co-Curate - Newcastle University
WEBPelaw came into being when the Cooperative Wholesale Society (C.W.S) established factories here in the late 1890s. Built on former agricultural land located between Heworth village and Bill Quay, the works grew to become one of the CWS' major industrial complexes in Britain. Pelaw Co-operative Society Lych Gate - St Mary's Church, Heworth.
Pelaw - Gateshead History
WEBThe Cooperative Society, understandably, called its works by the name handiest, Pelaw. Before the factories were built, there was nothing between Heworth village and Bill Quay but fields, the odd cottage, a stream called the Catdean Burn, bridle paths and the waggonway.
The Birth of Pelaw - Gateshead History
WEBThe factories, in addition to making Pelaw Polish also made shirts and other clothing, dry goods, drugs, bedding, furniture, printing and metal goods. The drugs factory was actually called Drug & Drysaltery Works. Isn't this a magnificent letterhead? If they were still around what would their emails be like? Look at the telephone numbers
Pelaw - Wikishire
WEBThe Shirt Factory no longer manufactures garments and was a private concern and the Cabinet Factory in Bill Quay, which later became a major Brentford Nylons plant, has been transformed into a modern business park by the name of Stonehills. The last factory to be demolished was the shirt Factory.
A Tyneside street 90 years ago in time; THEN AND NOW: PELAW, …
WEBMay 12, 2018 — The well-known Pelaw Shirt Factory, which had made attire for troops during World War II and employed 150 workers, was one of last standing as the new millennium dawned. It was finally demolished in 2011, marking the end of an era.
Pelaw | Co-Curate - Newcastle University
WEBThe Shirt Factory no longer manufactures garments and was a private concern and the Cabinet Factory in Bill Quay, which later became a major Brentford Nylons plant, has been transformed into a modern business park by the name of Stonehills.
CWS Shirt Factory, Pelaw | I originally took these pictures - Flickr
WEBSep 15, 2011 — These pictures showed one of the last survivors of a Co-op factory "empire" in Pelaw. Another piece of Pelaw’s industrial has vanished. Still a disused piece of land as of February 2014.
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