A VILLAGE RECORD
Sawston and the Mill
Ask the time of a village workman at Saws ton, Cambridgeshire, said the “Sunday Express” recently, and it is more than likely he will pull out a gold watch. And there are women at Sawston whose mantelpieces are decorated with gold clocks. In this age of records, Sawston, eight miles from Cambridge, has one all its own. For Sawston is confident that nowhere else in Britain is there a village, or a town for that matter, where so many people have worked for the same firm for a half-century or more. Gold watches and clocks are Sawston’s trophies.
The giving of them is becoming an almost annual event at the paper mills of Edward Towgood and Sons, Ltd. The firm employs 600 people, and nine of them have each put in more than fifty years of service there. When a child is born at Sawston its name is entered at the mill by most parents, just as other people enter their children for membership of the best clubs and schools.
There are parents, grandparents, and their grandchildren working side by side at the mill.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 6, 2 October 1937, Page 6 (Supplement)
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191A VILLAGE RECORD Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 6, 2 October 1937, Page 6 (Supplement)
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