Winding Yarn, Wellington Mills, Elland, West Yorkshire

These women are winding yarn onto bobbins for use on machines in the next stage of the spinning process. Even in the 1930s, when this picture was probably taken, unskilled jobs like this were often performed by women; men having the skilled (and higher paid) positions.

Location

West Yorkshire Elland

Period

1930s (1930 - 1938)

Themes

Tags

mill interior women work textile industry machinery men 1930s (1930 - 1938)