Life In Ordsall
Winifred Kelly, at home. |
Winifred Kelly (nee Owen) - Mill WorkBorn 1919 Ordsall Salford. Interviewed 1991 - T109  Click here to listen to this extract in RealAudio format.But Haworth's mill, of course, you went in and you finished up - ooh, a seven loom weaver, ooh, good lord! "He's got in with her, she's a seven loom weaver", she was money-making, wasn't she ? But they all started at the beginning with one, and it was very tough, they had a very, very tough life. When you talk about time, I should think all they wanted was to do was to sleep when they got home, because they used to be out at six o'clock in the morning. Now in the short time my mother worked at Haworth's mill with her sister, my aunt Rachel, they used to link one another going to work, and they used to take turns shutting their eyes and the other one'd walk to keep them going steady, and then it's "Hey! it's my turn!", so that one'd shut their eyes and have a sleep on the way. My mother once warned her sister, because she'd shut her eyes when hers were shut and she bumped into a lamp post! ... It was dark, of course, and lamps were very few and far between ... |
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