About The Trust and the Project...

We are a charitable trust based in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, UK. In 2008 we recieved at grant from HLF to carry out an oral history and research project into the lives of women who have worked in Industry across the region over the past 100 years. This blog is here to keep everyone up to date on the progress of the project and where we hope it will go, it is also here so that people can add comments or ideas for the project. Hope you enjoy reading! If you need any more information email: industry.sywdt@btconnect.com

Tuesday 23 December 2008

Buffer Girl Found!

The Trust received a call last week from someone who had seen the article in the Yorkshire Post, Tuesday 16th Dec 2008, and was able to identify one of the women in the 'Buffer Girls drinking tea picture' (right, middle) as his mother!
We have been using the picture in a lot of our publicity because it was such a lovely image. As a response the caller then sent us more photos of his mother from Dixon's Cutlery and working on the Civil Defence Ambulance, (below left Dixon's Cutlery, below right Civil Defence Ambulance)
We now have even more images to add to our data base and a lovely story to go with them.		 Buffer Girls at mobile canteen, WW2
Dixons Cutlery 2 Cilvil Defence Ambulance 3
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