Vic Hallam was the son of a Marlpool miner, and at the age of 15, just before the First World War, he took a half-share in a poultry breeding business with his older brother Dennis. With his skill in making sheds for his poultry, after the war he set up his own...
The Aristoc factory site on North Street, Langley Mill, also showing Ebenezer Street to the top left, and Thompson Street. This photograph was taken between 1955, when the dye-house on the centre left was built, but before 1963 when the offices were added to the right...