Comments on: Arful Nessa’s Sewing Machine

By: Phil Maxwell

Phil Maxwell — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 11:20:19 +0000

Thanks for this Delwar. Brilliant. My mother had a singer machine that has vanished so I recently aquired a 1930s model from the local charity shop to remind me of her. The photographs are wonderful.

By: Sue Hare (Radley)

Sue Hare (Radley) — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 08:15:05 +0000

I grew up in Baxendale street Bethnal Green and lived with my family from the late 50,s until I married. My mother did piecework on her sewing machine in the kitchen. I remember sitting & helping turn out the coat ties as she sewed coat linings. She then took them to the factory along Bethnal Green road in our pushchair. She said that you wasn’t a true machinist until the needle had gone through your finger nail – this always worried me.

By: John Barrett

John Barrett — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 07:23:14 +0000

Good solid journalism I like, this family worked so hard as the pundit say ‘they are the salt of the earth’ Good bye Nessa also to your workhorse and friend. John a poet from Bristol

By: Valerie-Jael

Valerie-Jael — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 05:44:42 +0000

Great story! My aunts and uncles all worked in the rag trade in the East End back in the 1950s and 1960s, and I know how hard the work was. Valerie