Photo’s of Turley and Williams,127/128 Highgate Street taken before the change in 1958 to Abrahams & Co Ltd.I am trying to research the factory oppsite the central mosque on Highgate street which goes all the way back to conybere street, I have a photo from the early sixties but have been told it was once a pearl button manufacturer, printing company and in the
early 1900's it was some sort of transport depot.
Anyone else shed any light on the history on this factory or highgate square, or the lower end of conybere street ( as in the second picture).
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Worked for Abrahams 1966 and 1967 in the school holidays. Like other temps I was moved round the factory in a vain effort to find something i could do.
I welded balls onto the top of crewit pots in a line of girls all on piecework. I contantly burnt my fingers and never made the required rate although the girls, after they had made up their numbers often pushed a few into my bin but how they made a young lad pay for it! The thing I remeber most was the internal system in the factory that required you phoned the office everytime you finished a job or were short of work.
Eventually they found I could I could 'do dispatch', left me there for a week and then sent me to a huge floor of a railway warehouse over by the gasworks to sort out thousands of large cardboard boxes into coutries and clients. I worked over there on my own for a couple of months with one visit a week to check progress. Compared to the factory it was very quiet and almost sureal.