From “Linen and Hats” to “Ham and Cheese”…
10/10/2024-10/10/2024
7.30pm
£5
Website: https://www.burnavon.com/whats-on/from-linen-and-hats%E2%80%9D-to-ham-and-cheese%E2%80%9D%E2%80%A6/129553855
Tel: 028 8676 9949
Cookstown’s Rich Industrial Heritage throughout the Centuries
presented by David Lennox
Industry in Cookstown today centres around cheese, pork, cement, engineering and electronics but in the middle of the last century it was textile manufacturing that provided thousands of jobs for local women, with Daintifyt Brassiere Company, Fisher’s Hat Factory, Ulster Tape and Webbing as the main employers.
Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries the Faulkners, Leepers, Adairs, and Gunnings of Wellbrook, Greenvale and Milburn were synonymous with flax and linen in the Cookstown area, but did you know that in 1772 the illicit drying of imitation tea leaves from bore-tree, dockans and sloe-thorn leaves in Lissan, Dynmore, and Bellinagiley was twice as profitable as working the spinning wheels!