..FUZZY FUNNY FADED FAB FIFTIES FOTOS FEATURING FORGOTTEN FRIENDS FACES
ABOVE: THE ENTRANCE TO THE STODDARD COMPOUND. THE DESIGN STUDIOS ARE ON TOP OF BUILDINGS BEHIND AND TO LEFT OF TREE. GIVEN OUR CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE HISTORIC TEXTILE TOWN OF PAISLEY, JUST TWO MILES AWAY, NEW INTERPRETATIONS OF THE ICONIC PAISLEY PATTERN WERE ALWAYS A POPULAR DESIGN THEME.
BILL MURRAY - FRONT
DONALD McDONALD'S BACK.
MARTHA FULTON.
JIM RAFFERTY & HECTOR McKECHNIE
IN SLAB ROOM AT REAR.
ANN HAMILTON - MARGARET GRANT
SLAB BOY BREW CREW
HECTOR McKECHNIE-BILLY BROWN-ALEX HOLMES-JIM RAFFERTY-IAN CAMPBELL
.... MARTHA FULTON MARTHA MARTHA MARTHA MARTHA MARTHA MARTHA MARTHA FULTON...........................................................................................
WALTER BARTRAM - DESIGN DIRECTOR
JOE McBRIDE
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LEFT TO RIGHT
JIM BERTRAM
JIM RAFFERTY
DONALD McDONALD
MARGARET COMBEN
..........BACK OF WILLIE CURRAN
WALTER & MARGARET GRANT IN PR POSE
DOUBLE TROUBLE
HELEN HILL - JEAN BARCLAY
THE SLABETTES .....................................................................................
DESIGN ROOM GIRLS
c.1958
c.1958 
GEORGE JOHNSON - LEFT
ALISTAIR McRAE - CENTRE
McPHAIL LANG - RIGHT ....
JOHN BYRNE ALL ALONE THINKIN'...MIBBE AH'LL WRITE A BOOK OR A PLAY OR SUMTHIN' ABOOT THIS PLACE SOME DAY... MMMM, ' THE SLAB BOAYS' MIGHT BE A GOOD TITLE...AH MIGHT EVEN PAINT A POSTER FURR'IT...
RAFFERTY & HOLMES
HANKY PANKY?
JR'n'2M'S .......................................................... 
SIR ROBER McLEAN GIVES HIS DESIGN APPROVAL
STODDARD DESIGN STUDIO SCENE by JOHN BYRNE
LOTS OF DRAMA QUEENS . . .
AND THAT'S JUST THE GUYS I'M TALKING ABOUT . . .
JIMMY REDDUX
STODDARD'S GLENPATRICK WORKS, ELDERSLIE, SCOTLAND,
DEMOLISHED FOLLOWING COMPANY GOING INTO RECEIVERSHIP IN 2005
R.I.P.
Perhaps more than any other company, Stoddard International plc represents the glory as well as the devastation of the United Kingdom's textiles industry. The country's oldest, and once one of its largest carpet makers, the Elderslie, Scotland-based company entered 2005 with little hope of surviving as a going concern. Founded in 1862, Stoddard has become nearly synonymous with fine British carpets, producing both tufted and axminster carpets for some of the world's most prestigious floors: Stoddard provided the carpets for HRH Princess Elizabeth's wedding in 1947, and the company has produced carpets for the White House, the Scottish Parliament, and, more recently, for the set of the blockbuster movie Titanic. Yet after battling competition for more than 40 years from lower-priced imports, Stoddard has succumbed to the sustained consumer preference for bare and wooden floors at the turn of the 21st century. Despite restructuring its production base - closing two factories, including its former headquarters in Elderslie, and consolidating its manufacturing at a single location in Kilmarnock - Stoddard continued to suffer mounting debt and dwindling sales. By the beginning of 2005, with annual sales dropping to just £30 million (approximately $55 million), Stoddard's debt had climbed to £9 million, while losses reached £100,000 per day. The company was placed in receivership in February 2005.
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