The Heymans soap factory had been derelict and an eyesore since production ended in the 1980s.

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After returning from World War II, the pair set up shop inside the Sapolio soap factory, owned by Morgan's father.

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Davyhulme was the part of Manchester in which he had lived as a child, where his widowed mother had worked at the Co-operative Soap Factory and where he himself had earned 5s 6d a week delivering newspapers and bread.

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She reads fashion magazines for make-up tips and how to keep slim with the right vegetable juices, listens to a digital music player overflowing with the latest Hong Kong Cantopop songs, and recently watched dubbed Korean soap operas on a PC with her girlfriends at her factory dorm munching snacks and drinking beer.

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