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Chris Binding

Barbour wants to upgrade its South Tyneside warehouse to create 20 new jobs

Proposals to upgrade warehousing facilities at iconic South Tyneside business Barbour have been lodged with council planners.

South Tyneside Council’s planning department recently registered an application for J Barbour and Sons Ltd in the Bede ward.

The business, founded in 1894, is now based in Bede Industrial Estate and has been making and selling waxed jackets for more than 125 years.

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