Report - Flude Hosiery, Hinckley Leicestershire 2006

[dweeb]

Re-posted by request!

H. Flude & Company was founded in 1926 by Harry Flude in partnership with William Collins. At first it operated from a room over a stable. In 1929 a modern single storey building was erected on Rugby Road, which was greatly enlarged over the next thirty years. The company also had a factory on Netherley Road (now demolished).

I managed to get in here twice, once just as it was closing and again post closure. Very typical factory for the town of Hinckley, which at one time was known for it's hosiery production. The building was fronted by an inter-war office block, with typical saw tooth roof behind it.

Plenty left to see, the highlight being an 18th C stocking frame which had been modernized in the mid 19th C. It had been kept as a curio, but apparently the museum wouldn't take it due to the 19th C alterations, so I assume it was skipped along with everything else!

The board room was also very of it's time, with discreet hidden bar and portrait of the founder on the wall.

 

[Ojay]

Chip away at fixing/re-posting all the old stuff mate, shame much of that lot ended up dead over the years and being removed, some proper legacy epics

 

[slayaaaa]

You "old timers" need to he posting more stuff thats got lost in the forum this is great! Hope you're doing well man!

 

[tarkovsky]

Good stuff. Nice legs.

 

[HughieD]

That place is a bit surreal. Loads of stuff to snap. Great report.

 

[raisinwing]

Just awesome!

 

[Exploring with Andy]

Wow this was good!

 

[chris9140]

Re-posted by request!



I managed to get in here twice, once just as it was closing and again post closure. Very typical factory for the town of Hinckley, which at one time was known for it's hosiery production. The building was fronted by an inter-war office block, with typical saw tooth roof behind it.

Plenty left to see, the highlight being an 18th C stocking frame which had been modernized in the mid 19th C. It had been kept as a curio, but apparently the museum wouldn't take it due to the 19th C alterations, so I assume it was skipped along with everything else!

The board room was also very of it's time, with discreet hidden bar and portrait of the founder on the wall.

Wow my mum used to work there they used to work for peice work my mum being one of the fastest overlockers/machinests there used to earn her daily amount what we needed to live on and put the work she did over in the slower girls Boxes

 

[Reeceaaines]

I was around 15 when this place became abandoned aswell as about 6 or 7 other hosiery factory's in hinckley. This place really got me I to urbex but gems like this are few and far between now. I remember it as these pictures are. Now its housing and council offices