New House Textiles is a family run business, that begun when Harold Stanier bought his first knitting machine back in 1921. 

Harold completed his Royal Flying Corps pilots training, just as the First World War was ending. Not wanting to return home, he volunteered to fly special missions against the Bolsheviks in the Crimea. He narrowly survived a plane crash and a storm, in which the ship he was traveling on almost sank. But eventually he returned to Manchester, where he formed H. Stanier & Co with his savings.

The business rapidly grew throughout the 20’s and 30’s, and re-located to purpose built factories in South Wales in 1938.