Other Businesses

The Glove Factory

Newbold’s glove factory was a single wooden building on land now occupied by No.5 School Lane. About thirty people, worked at the factory and employees were mainly women from Newbold and nearby villages who walked or cycled to work. Doris Croson, a villager from a large Newbold family worked in the factory.

The factory made gloves and scarves for soldiers and after the end of the second world war, large knitting machines were used to make jumpers. When the factory closed the building was bought by a local farmer Frank Cox who used it for potato storage until it was finally dismantled in the 1970's.