Recorded Memories

Bert Hall Interviews. November 1997 & March 1998.

From the hating industry to thirty-five years as a Master Dyer at Bennett Bros late 1940s-1980s:‘I got the firm to realise that you couldn’t learn everything in Hinckley or Leicester…’

‘I got myself a part time job in a laboratory…and took up training at Leicester College(School of Chemistry and Dying) for the full City and Guilds certificate’

‘I always claim that we dyed the first fast black on nylon stockings. There was a lot of competition going on…’

‘We had no choice, well I didn’t with my father – ‘you’re going to the factory’ – deemed as a good job and it was…’