MORE than 100 years ago Fox Brothers & Co, Wellington’s major woollen manufacturer, offered its employees a range of benefits that included maternity pay and profit sharing.

These benefits will be the subject of a talk by Colin Spackman tomorrow (Thursday, February 22) at Wellington Prep School, South Street, at 7.30pm.

Colin will follow this with a short history of the Easton family of Bradford-on-Tone. Starting locally about 1800 and then spreading nationally, this family produced engineers, surveyors, land agents and a stained glass artist who had contacts with the Duke of Wellington, I K Brunel, Prince Albert and Westminster Abbey, among other notable clients.

Entry to the talk, in aid of Wellington Museum Society, costs £3 or £2 for society members.