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’