Two 13-year-old boys watch a modern sewing machine demonstration at Cowley Feast. – Vintage Photograph

On Tuesday, October 3, 1958, two Cowley boys, Phillip Drytherch and Richard Spencer, aged 13, watched a modern sewing machine being demonstrated at Cowley Feast. The machine was capable of producing thousands of different patterns.On Tuesday, October 3, 1958, two Cowley boys, Phillip Drytherch and Richard Spencer, aged 13, watched a modern sewing machine being demonstrated at Cowley Feast. The machine was capable of producing thousands of different patterns.

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VAAL VANU LUNES, TRIDAL, VULDERV FLU Sumi 3 OCT 1958 Two 13-year-old Cowley boys, Phillip Drytherch and Richard Spencer, watch a modern sewing machine, which can produce thousands of different patterns, being demonstrated at Cowley Feast on Tuesday. (Story of the Feast on Page 13.)