These photos were taken in the last days of 2011 at a time when the Quality Yarns woollen mill in Milton was facing a very uncertain future brought on by changing fashions and increased competition from imported products. Staff, some of whom had worked there for as long as four decades, were facing a Christmas without a job.
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