John Wells

The canteen

The main thing former Berry’s workers agree on (and they seem to agree on a lot!) it’s that the food

Here’s a cutting from the Clitheroe Advertiser Oct 1991. Names needed! Thanks to Yvonne Gornall, names left to right: Jim

So much to see and do at Helmshore Textile Mills Museum last Friday (10th Nov) when children from Brabin’s and

Jim Blezard was one of the earlier Berry’s chairmakers. He worked as a French polisher and can be seen as

Good friends with John Wells, Tommy Byers, together with Sandy Snape and Albert Walker would ‘have the bus in uproar’

I started work at 14. On my mother’s side and my father’s side, they were all farmers. And I was

John Wells recalls the humour of Percy Seed …

John Wells tells the story about how he came upon an original bobbin from Kirk Mill’s cotton-spinning days

Here is a list of all Berry’s workers we can think of so far … do you have any to

Jack Berry was Manager of Berry’s chair works from 1966 until ??. He was a friend to many of

According to Chris Aspin, first references to a cotton venture at Kirk Mill can be found in the Wapentake of