SIR - I would like to add a few memories concerning glove making in Worcester (Letters, December 7).

I believe there was a small factory opposite what is now Spring Gardens multi-storey car park, I think it was called Glover Nicholls.

I lived in Spring Gardens where an alley led into George Street and this small factory was opposite the end of the alley. I was brought up by my grandmother from the age of seven due to the untimely death of my mother at 38 years of age from TB.

The retirement pension was 10 shillings a week and my grandmother did glove making at home for a bit of extra money. The leather was cut ready and when I got home from Stanley Road School I used to help my grandmother sewing the fleecy linings that she put in.

I think there also used to be a small factory in Barbourne somewhere by St George's Church and of course Fownes Gloves were well known. The factory has now been turned into a restaurant.

I still have a pair of Fownes gloves with the name inside. I believe there was also a factory by the side of the canal and I have a pair of leather muffs which a friend made for me when she worked there.

MRS J CHAMBERS, Worcester.