Proper Pride

Hello - !my name is now jane LUDGATE but I was jane Hely and worked for the Metchsndise manageress mrs hitchinso n as a p a in 1971-1972 - I loved it . Do write to me - I don't know what years your mother was there . there was a designer called Ann conn - factory manager ( handsome !) called Ian reilly - gina zona in the factory and I think a nick lowe . I left as was having my first daughter Melissa who is now 44! We had a lady with a tea trolley who came round. I ve been trying to find someone from there for years . love to hear from you - janeludgate1@gmail.com . I live in Ampthill ( I was widowed aged 41 in1991) .

it was just off the mike road in windsor road / I can't find any photos

My.Mother, Mary Reid worked at Proper Pride I think from 1962-1966. She was an overlocker. She remembers being rewarded for completing so many pieces; the reward was a make over. She said the make up was very thick, sixties style. My Dad worked in the cutting room. Was it then called Hawkins. and then Kayser?

I was a 19 year old student and worked at PP in 1966 as general dogsbody and then promoted to van driver of a very smart Ford Thames van with Proper Pride Lingerie smartly signed in gold on the side. It caused some comment from the Liverpool dockers. Happy memories of a happy female dominated workforce working hard on their machines