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‘Frozen in time’ – Leicester’s Knitters Museum
The workshop of Leicester’s last master hosier is a unique record of his working life.
When Leicester’s last master hosier, Edgar Carter died in 1951, his workshop, built in 1891, was locked leaving a unique record of his working life.
It's a remarkable survivor, a totally complete and unchanged knitting shop from a time when Framework knitting was part of the industrial revolution, and similar businesses drove the employment and wealth of Leicester and the surrounding countryside.
The Wigston Framework Knitters Museum opened in 1986 and is now run by a group of trustees who pay an annual peppercorn rent to the local council – a sock made on one of the machines at a ceremony held each September.
Ben Jackson went for a look around.
