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Old 17-10-2011, 17:36   #7
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Re: The life of a local mill worker.

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Originally Posted by MargaretR View Post
Both my parents and my uncle worked at Threebrooks Mill.
(dad - tackler, mum - weaver, uncle in the office)
I used to go in after junior school, and help my mum weaving by doing some loading of spools into shuttles.
The health and safety issues of doing that didn't seem to bother anybody.
I seam to remember saying, when I started working at Shopfitters that I was following in her footsteps as that is where she work when she left school
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