Located in Victoria Street, Redditch, showing ‘papering and wrapping’ – which is making the packets, pasting labels on to them and then putting the needles into the packets.
1) Image shows Hilda White, Jessie Mills, Vera Batchelor, M. Malins, Elsie Simons, Daisy Danks, Winnie Batchelor, Nellie Webb, Elsie Dyson, Beatrice Hemming, Mabel Sealey, Bernard Robinson, Bertha Smart, Marjorie Blundell, Winnie Gibbs, Elsie Lee, Mary Blackford, Ethel Freeman, Mabel Wells, Dolly Bott, Arthur Maries, Florrie Newman and Daisy Albutt. c 1925
2) Image shows Harriet Such, Mary Hopkins, Amy Hart, Beatrice Tracey, Nance Simons, Lily Bott, Marjorie Beckett, Lily Hughes, Alice Finch, Elsie Smith, Edith Sutton, Edna Powell, Nance Davis, Nellie Harris, Olive Warspett, Ethel Jackson, Nance Kerry, Rose Porthouse, Alice Boyce, Kate Sealey, Bessie Wright, Ethel Simons, Louisa Warner, Mabel Allcock, Louisa Wright, Lily Wright, Florrie Smith. c 1925
3) The Needle Packing Room, showing Automatic Pin Sticking machines in the foreground. Left to right: Margaret Wheeler, Ivy Batson, Florence Jones, Gertrude Malins, Dolly Bott, Hilda Tomlinson, Gertrude Green and, on the right, Jessie Atkins, Beatrice Evans and Ann Phillips. 1946