A Stitch In Time...

Amateur seamstress Maryjane Sullivan on experiencing life in a 1960s clothes factory

- Judy Ewens

Life in the 1960s was anything but swinging for female factory workers.

They did a hard day’s work for unequal pay and went home to the cooking and cleaning.

In new BBC2 series Back in Time for the Factory, presenter Alex Jones turns back the clock so 20 women can experience life on the production line of a clothes factory in Wales in 1968 (future episodes are set in the 1970s and 1980s).

They sit at the same industrial machines used in the 1960s, wear the clothes of the era and adhere to the same factory targets and rules, such as ‘no foul language’.