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High Pavement, Sutton in Ashfield

High Pavement
Sutton in Ashfield
England

The Dog and Duck Public House (on the left) was demolished in March/April 2001 to make way for the retail park. High Pavement, which runs parallel with Low Street, was known as Back Lane until c 1840. The road was widened to form a dual-carriageway when the Sutton Community Centre was built in the 1970's. The premises occupied by G Nowell have frame knitter windows on the upper storeys. 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.

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