Cooper's Dressing Gown Factory
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Cooper's Dressing Gown Factory
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 31 Aug 2012
This was the only significant textiles related factory in Newark; Cooper's manufactured a range of garments although the quilted dressing gowns were the most famous. Business started deteriorating in the economic downturn of the early 1970s, not helped by a serious fire in 1973, and the firm closed at the end of 1975. Since then the buildings have been occupied by small firms. The tall building originally had a hipped roof which was lost in the fire.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.073088
Longitude
-0.813947