A life in the fast lane of haute couture and the swinging Sixties – Mary Burgoyne’s story

Fashion designer Mary Burgoyne has lived in a property in The Waterside since 2015 but she spent the early part of her career in London building her fashion couture business. She shared a host of entertaining tales from her life with The Northern Echo’s Chris Lloyd for Middleton Hall’s 125th anniversary edition of the paper’s Memories supplement.

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