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Joseph Hepworth (1834–1911) was the clothing manufacturer who founded Joseph Hepworth & Son, a company which grew to become the United Kingdom's largest clothing manufacturer and which is now known as Next plc.
Joseph Hepworth was a self-made man. Born in Lindley, near Huddersfield, in 1834, he started work when he was only ten years old as a mill boy, working ‘half-time’: six and a half hours a day, six days a week, for a wage of 1s 6d a week (15 pence). The working conditions were appalling, ‘not fit for a dog’, he said.
Nov 3, 2020 · THERE IS nothing like a rags to riches story. Clothing manufacturer and retailer Joseph Hepworth neatly falls into this category. Starting life as a factory lad, he later went on to become Mayor of Leeds and run dozens of retail stores, before the entire operation was taken over by Next PLC.
Jan 15, 2017 · For a full century, between 1884 and 1985, Hepworth’s was a thriving national chain of men’s clothing shops, with a strong line in ready-made and made-to-measure suits. Rivals in the same field included Montague Burton, The Fifty Shilling Tailor (later renamed John Collier), Alexandre and Jackson's.
Jan 28, 2017 · Montague Burton was not the first to establish a successful chain of tailor’s shops throughout Britain: Joseph Hepworth and his son Norris had opened their first shops in 1884. Nevertheless, between the 1920s and the 1960s, Burton was the country’s predominant high street tailor.
Apr 16, 2016 · Trainee Burton tailors practise fitting a suit, Guisborough, 1960. Photograph: Walter Nurnberg/SSPL via Getty Images. ... where a Methodist tailor, Joseph Hepworth, had begun to sell his wares ...
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Architect: W.S. Braithwaite. In 1864 Joseph Hepworth went into business as a tailor in Leeds. By 1881 the factory in Wellington Street employed 500 people and made complete men’s three-piece suits. In the 1880s they established shops to sell their suits direct to the public.
