Can we afford to shut down for two weeks and, possibly, lose business? As there may be a competitor who is no longer closing for these two weeks in summer? Many workers took to their social media celebrating the start of factory fortnight but growing number of companies will not be closing down this year. Is your company still observing this tradition?
For example, in Derry the holiday period was the last week in July and the first in August. And even where places did close down, they usually continued to have some staff in to carry out work," he said. The Joint Council for the Building and Civil Engineering Industry NI formerly had a policy of 29 fixed days off for brickies, labourers and other members of the construction trade. But from last year, it started observing just 18 fixed days and 12 flexible days, including the Twelfth and 13th.
Twelfth fortnight shutdown 'thing of the past' with firms taking more flexible stance. Expand Expand Expand Expand. Close Dale Farm: not closing. Bombardier: closed for a week. Moy Park: not closing. Although factory fortnights have largely died out, we still pick up echoes of it in our local work. So as a bit of local history we want to map the memories of factory fortnights across the country and what weeks they were in. When was the factory fortnight in your town? Your entry will automatically update on the map.
It has been created using the Maptastica. It can be embedded on your own blog or website too. Image Credit Staffs Past Track. I grew up in a steel town called Stocksbridge, about 10 miles NW of Sheffield. One thing I remember vividly was not being able to sleep because of the quiet… no locos, arc furnaces or rolling mills rumbling away. Trains carried Newarkers to London, to the SouthCoast, to the East Coast, and to the west and south-west.
Today, whilst those resorts remain popular, destinations are just as likely to include all points abroad, featuring countries and places hardly dreamed of as accessible or affordable in the fifties. The reporter even went so far as to follow the crowds to Skegness and report on their progress. In those early years, the Committee demanded merely one day for their outing, and, on the first occasion, organised a modest excursion to London.
The Great Northern Railway Company agreed, as an act of favour, to run a train to London for a fare of 4s. Fortunately, almost double that number signed up for the trip, and many Newarkers visited the metropolis who had never been there before. If you're already a registered user of this site, please login using the form on the left-hand side of this page.
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