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Offline Bonniebuster196

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Islington area
« on: Monday 01 April 19 08:25 BST (UK) »
In the 1939 register my mother aged 17 was a packer in a tobacco factory, does anyone know the name/location of such a factory.  Her address was Oldershaw Rd.

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Re: Islington area
« Reply #1 on: Monday 01 April 19 08:42 BST (UK) »
Could be the old Lambert & Butler factory in Clerkenwell?
It became part of Imperial Tobacco in 1901.

Founded in St John Street in 1834, they moved to Drury Lane in 1836.
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Re: Islington area
« Reply #2 on: Monday 01 April 19 08:54 BST (UK) »
Looking at the long list of Tobacco Manufacturers in the 1938 London PO Directory, there were a number of tobacco factories in the Islington area, and more (accessible by bus or tube) elsewhere in the London area.
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Re: Islington area
« Reply #3 on: Monday 01 April 19 09:12 BST (UK) »
Carreras had a factory in Mornington Crescent.
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Re: Islington area
« Reply #4 on: Monday 01 April 19 09:16 BST (UK) »
Apparently Warner Street became Oldershaw Road, then the area was cleared possibly in the 60s. See map here for location:
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=18.06033253752718&lat=51.5470&lon=-0.1145&layers=168&right=BingHyb
(You can zoom in and out and scroll around.)

I can’t see any tobacco related businesses in the near vicinity, but as others have suggested, she may have walked or used public transport to travel further afield.

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Re: Islington area
« Reply #5 on: Monday 01 April 19 10:09 BST (UK) »
Possibly the Old Holborn factory.

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