The G.E.C. factory, Hartlepool also known as A.E.I. and Seimens at various times.
A group of ladies from the G.E.C. 128 Store celebrate the retirement of Florence White and Violet Winslow. The factory is also decorated to mark the impending royal wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981.
More detail »For many years an annual Good Friday charity football match took place at Grayfields between ladies of the two factories. The 1962 match was won by Cerebos 2-1. Money was raised for Guide Dogs for the Blind and the match was kicked off by the Then mayor, Ald D R Ashton.
More detail »Mavis Hall (left), Mary Connor (centre) and Cynthia in the Siemens factory at Christmas, sometime in the 1950s.
More detail »An advert from 1972 for girls and women, terminology no longer allowed today, at GEC factory on Hartlepool Trading Estate.
A 15 year old girl would earn £5 a week when the advert was put out in March 1972 and aimed at the Easter school leavers.
More detail »Marion Bunn working the late shift (6.00pm - 10.00pm), on the G.E.C. coil-winding machines in 1975/76.
More detail »Girls from the Siemen's factory at Hartlepool on holiday at Butlin's Holiday Camp, Skegness. The two 'Mary Connors' were not related!
More detail »A road sweeper posing for a photograph at West View Trading Estate. The G.E.C. factory can be seen in the background.
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More detail »Ladies at the G.E.C. factory celebrate a collegue's retirement.
More detail »Ladies at the GEC works taking a well-eraned tea break, in 1966. Marion Bunn is on the left, with Mary (?) in the centre, and Elsie O'Hara (?) on the right.
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