Recorded Memories

Bill Boggon Interview December 1997.

Bill Boggon, Secretary of Hinckley and District Manufacturers Association: ‘It came home to the Union and their workers in this town that radical changes had to take place in working practices – companies started buying multi-feed machines’

Industry in Hinckley was predominantly a female industry - 3 out of 4 were females’

‘desire of the people, working within the industry, to have as high a standard of living as possible…put their heads down and produce as much as they could’