The largest in town

Picañol’s factory continued to be the largest enterprise in town during the war years. At the outbreak of the WWII, the company employed 130 staff. A little more than a year after the German retreat in 1944, that number had grown to 250 people who delivered three weaving machines per day. The arrival of the Polish armored division in September 1944 not only marked Picañol’s move to a new address, it also heralded a brand new start. By late November 1945 the company underlined its expansion plans by purchasing a building lot in the Weverijstraat.
(picture from private collection,www.westhoekverbeeldt.be)