There really is something everyone in Hungerford Arcade. It is always particularly gratifying when one of our customers finds something to which they have a family connection.
One such was Benjamin Grain who found this miniature sewing machine in unit 101. He believed it had been made a firm owned by his family before being merged into Brother and Singer sewing machines.
The history of the company is fascinating to read – how it developed from a room over a plumber’s shop into a company with over 60 employees during World War 11, when they were contracted to manufacture aircraft parts.
They started making the Grain miniature sewing machine in 1946 and continued until the mid sixties when they were no longer in fashion. The model above is a Grain Mk11 from the 1960s.
For further information about this fascinating company, see grain-sewing.com.
