The Patons brand is now owned by the Australian Yarn Company, and it continues to manufacture the wool at a factory in Wangaratta, Victoria. "It's made in conjunction with our other mill in Bendigo.

The Lingfield Point site changed for ever when, in the early 1980s, a decision was taken to transfer all of the company's yarn production to Alloa. In 1991, Patons & Baldwin merged with the Coats ...

In February the story of the Patons and Baldwins, a leading manufacturer of knitting yarn, will be explored with a selection of photographs of the factory and its employees.