Keith Crawford

Keith is related to the Early family. He read engineering at Cambridge and joined the firm of Early and Marriott (Witney) Ltd full time in 1976, becoming particularly involved with their needle-punch product development. Amongst other things he went to work for Hugh Chatham in North Carolina, the inventor of the revolutionary Fiberweaving machines that were introduced to Witney blanket making in the 1960s.

Keith started his working life at Mount Mill. He recalls that the staff there felt they were slightly different to those at Witney Mill because they had been tasked with introducing the new process of Fiberweaving to Witney.

A recorded interview with Keith is available from Oxfordshire Studies - details are available on the Search the Collections page (search for his name).