Weatherfield Plastics were local manufacturing firm who went bust in October 1973. Shortly before this event, Fairclough and Langton had done some building work for them installing new hand basins and putting up tile and billed them the sum of £2000 for the job. Len Fairclough and Ray Langton tried to contact the firm's management to collect the money but they proved evasive. Getting impatient, they went along themselves to the firm's site but found the workers all locked out as the firm had declared themselves insolvent that morning.