Dritex raincoats Mushroom Street Mabgate.

David M Ward · Post by **David M Ward** » Mon 25 May, 2015 2:53 pm

Help!
Can anybody confirm this. In the early sixties I started work at Clark Dritex on Mushroom St Mabgate opposite the old cinema which was Galinsky's tailoring factory. The building was a tall narrow structure of five floors which swayed in the wind, and as a fifteen year old on the top floor in the cutting room it gave me the shivers. I was always told that the factory originally belonged to Burtons before its move to Hudson Rd. I am sure the full address was Concorde St and I know that that was the address of the Burtons factory. But Concorde Street now only runs down off North St eastwards a little way!
Is there anybody can verify that the factory I worked in was the Montegue Burtons premises before their move?
Regards
David M Ward

j.c.d. · Post by **j.c.d.** » Mon 25 May, 2015 3:37 pm

Hi David. Can't help you with your question about the building but Concorde Street ran from North St down to Regent St. but as I recall (a long, long time ago.) it never went near Mushroom St. Good luck with your enquiry.

hyperion · Post by **hyperion** » Mon 25 May, 2015 3:46 pm

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David M Ward · Post by **David M Ward** » Mon 25 May, 2015 8:19 pm

Thank you folks!
I think at the time I must have been given wrong information but if any body knows who the building belonged to before Clark Dritex I should be interested to know. Dritex moved out of the building around 1964 to the Heptons Factory next to the Shaftsbury Cinema on York Rd.

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Mon 25 May, 2015 11:16 pm

According to a couple of sources, Burton's moved from Camp Road to Concord Street in 1914.

http://www.on-magazine.co.uk/beauty/fas ... s-history/

liits · Post by **liits** » Tue 26 May, 2015 8:31 am

The 1908 Kelly's Directory doesn't show Burton's of any description at Camp Road but the 1916 directory records a Burton & Burton at Concord Street. Was Burton & Burton a forerunner of Montague Burton's?

rikj · Post by **rikj** » Tue 26 May, 2015 10:59 am

liits wrote:Was Burton & Burton a forerunner of Montague Burton's?

Yes, it was. There's a fairly detailed history in the "Moving Here" migration histories on the National Archives website.

David M Ward · Post by **David M Ward** » Sun 31 May, 2015 8:50 pm

The full address of Dritex was,
Mushroom St
Cross Stanford St
Mabgate.
As I said previously it was an eerie old place to a fifteen year old in 1963!
Any body else remember working there?

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