Sowerbutt's Scissors

"You wouldn't believe the shortages we had after the war," the retired writer for the East London Pioneer, who still has the notebook from his early 1960s interview with Jimmy Sowerbutt, said. "Everything sort of collapsed, people went back to their old ways and there was none of the effort being made in the factories. Jimmy told me he came across this old boy in Southwark who wanted out - retirement to Spain. He made all sorts of scissors for the kitchen, bathroom and tailors. Polly had a lot of experience of factories during the war and in no time at all they had turned the factory around. Moved out to a new site Woolwich way, someone said. He must have sold it before he disappeared in the fifties. You still see Sowerbutt's scissors in homes around the East End."
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