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The rear of houses on New Street, Sutton in Ashfield

New Street
Sutton in Ashfield
England

Showing the rear of run-down dilapidated housing on New Street. The houses show signs of having been used by stocking knitters in the past. The stocking -frame was a hand operated machine about the size of a small loom or small upright piano and was used to knit stockings or hose, and other small articles of clothing like hats gloves and scarves or mufflers from wool, silk and cotton. The frame work knitters worked at home, and either had a frame shop or workshop in the garden or a special room often on the top floor of the house with a special extra wide window to let in the maximum light for the stockinger to work. On the upper storey of the building these frame knitter windows have been partially blocked up to form smaller windows.

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Sutton in Ashfield Library