Flaming Nora: 5 Real Life Locations in The Toffee Factory Girls

Thursday, February 15, 2024

5 Real Life Locations in The Toffee Factory Girls

Would you like to know more about the real-life locations I use in my novels?

I hope that if you read The Toffee Factory Girls or if you've read it already, that these pictures might give some context and background and add a bit of depth to the locations I've written about.

1. Horner's Toffee Factory, Chester-le-Street

The most important of all of the locations in this book. Horner's Toffee Factory and the Dainty Dinah toffee brand inspired the novel, story and characters.

2. Front Street, Chester-le-Street

A lot of action in the story takes place on Front Street, which remains the main shopping street in Chester-le-Street. On the right hand side of this picture can you can see a group of women, dressed in their overalls. They are workers at Horner's toffee factory.

3. The Lambton Arms pub, Chester-le-Street
The pub is where evil Frankie Ireland lives. Fortunately, Frankie's brother Jim and Jim's wife Cathy are good people who run the pub. The pub will host the paperback book launch on Saturday May 23 2024, all day. All welcome.

4. Elm Street, Chester-le-Street

This is where Hetty, her mum Hilda and brother Dan live in the story. I walked these streets many times, thinking about my characters and how they would have lived around the turn of World War 1.

5. The lane at the back of the Toffee Factory

This is a modern picture of the lane that still exists on the site where Horner's Toffee Factory once stood. The lane was dark and therefore dangerous at the time of the story, it's a place where awful things happen. However, under the dark of night, it's also where courting couples met.