Title

Woman worker, Wellington Mill, Strangman Street, Leek, Staffordshire, 1960-1974

Caption

Woman worker, Wellington Mill, Strangman Street, Leek, Staffordshire, 1960-1974. A woman operating yarn doubling machine in the premises of Bentley and Whittles, silk manufacturers, at Wellington Mills.

Date

1960

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM19B42_246

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

66,1Mb (3,5Mb) / 16,0in x 16,0in / 4807 x 4806 (300dpi)

Keywords

building buildings England female women woman people interior work employment job industry manufacturing worker country trade occupation British English industrial factory machine machinery location century Britain profession inside fabric silk company lady concept leek B&W Staffordshire MONOCHROME seventies yarn textile industry Sixties 1970s Indoors black & white black and white B W 1960s 20th century textile mill workers English Heritage textile manufacturing textile worker TGN textiles worker working photograph portrait Wellington Mills Eileen Deste Deste Eileen Deste Eilenn Bentley and Whittles photograph portrait