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Ulster’s ready-made shirt making industry, located largely in the north west of Northern Ireland, was an important but little known industry. Its origins lie in the early 19th century, when local man William Scott established a shirt making enterprise in Derry in 1831. Having spotted a demand, among fashionable society, for cotton shirts with embroidered linen fronts, he expanded his making, via outstations, into manufacture and by 1850 was thought to have one of the highest wage bills in the city. His early success paved the way for others, who took an industrial approach to shirt making.
Technological advances, such as the introduction of the sewing machine, allowed further investment in the city and industrialists to construct purpose built factories. The Tillie & Henderson factory at 19,000 sq ft, opened in 1856, was the largest of its kind in the world. By the 1902, there were 38 shirt factories in Derry, employing 18,000 workers and 80, ....

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