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Here is a more up to date photo of the old Mastabar/Karrimor building. I notice Trevor Dawson - the estate agent - is in charge of the property. He's done well, used to work for Duckworths estate agents in St James Street. He seems to have most of the industrial buildings in this area.

I worked for Mastabar at Church many years ago. They had no canteen then, but the Avenue Parade works (which was actually Mastabar Beltfasteners - both owned by Fenners of Hull) had, so the firm provided a bus to get you from Church to Accrington. You then had the choice of either getting something to eat from town OR, you could go to the Accrington branch, go through the side door in Water Street (I always remember this HUGE clocking-in machine on the wall there) and upstairs, to the very top floor, where there was a works canteen. Really decent nosh and very inexpensive it was! Happy memories.