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Factory Visit: PHD Down Clothing, Manchester

22.02.12

Back when the weather was warm, I took the train from Todmorden to the Manchester suburb of Stalybridge (Edit: OK, it’s actually in Tameside, but unless you’re northern, who’s heard of that, eh?). Previously, Stalybridge had only ever been known to be for being the birth place of the only northern boy at my Somerset school. However, it’s got more going for it than that. For a start it has the longest pub name in Britain: The Old Thirteenth Cheshire Astley Volunteer Rifleman Corps Inn and the turf at the footy club was rumoured to be cousins with that of Wembley. That’s not why I’m here though. I’m here to see PHD and to look at how it make its down jackets and sleeping bags.

Navigating my way through the red corporation brick buildings of old Stalybridge, it seems a seemingly suitable place for a hands-on clothing manufacturer to still be based. In fact PHD are one of two companies that still hand-makes down products in Europe (the other is in Eastern Europe). I find the PHD factory in an old industrial mill building, heading through the courtyard and past the comfortingly oily smell of engine machine shops and up the stone steps to a modest door – and back a couple of decades into a proper old school manufacturing factory.

Source: Singletrack

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