Basket Weaving

A Memory of Thornton Heath.

In the early 60s I went to a works in Thornton Heath where they made willow baskets. There were huge vats of water for soaking large bundles of stripped willow to make them supple prior to being woven into things like shopping trolley baskets, or hand baskets. I don't think there was any mechanisation at all.

I'd be interested to know where this was and who ran it. Possibly a relative of mine?
I have a vague idea it was north of the centre of TH.