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Aked's Yard, Sutton in Ashfield

Mill Street
Sutton in Ashfield
England

This was formerly know as Starch Yard, after a small Starch manufactory which had premises here. It's name was changed to Aked's Yard, reflecting the owner of the property, Mr John Aked. Mr Aked owned a grocery store on King Street, and used buildings in the yard to bag his flour and to shed his delivery van. Mr and Mrs Aked later moved to Carrington (when in their 80's). The houses have frameknitter windows on the upper floors. The stocking -frame was a hand operated machine about the size of a small loom or small upright piano and was used to knit stockings or hose, and other small articles of clothing like hats gloves and scarves or mufflers from wool, silk and cotton. The frame work knitters worked at home, and either had a frame shop or workshop in the garden or a special room often on the top floor of the house with a special extra wide window to let in the maximum light for the stockinger to work. The yard no longer exists, having been demolished and replaced with Local Authority Flats.

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