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Article: End of an era as last shirtmaker is to close down; Hard labour: Women dominated an industry known for its harsh conditions.
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- June 11, 2008
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IT was, for generations, Derrys most celebrated industry.
So much so, in fact, that it was immortalised in Phil Coulters song The Town ILoved So Well, which includes a line about the shirt factory horn calling localwomen to work each morning.
But now the citys last designer and manufacturer of prestige mens shirts isclosing with the loss of its remaining 30 workers.
Glenaden Shirts Ltd (GSL), based in the citys Trench Road, went intoadministration last Thursdaybut staff were informed only when they returned earlier this week from a weeksleave.
The company blamed the decision on the global credit crisis and the collapse ofan important ...