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Located in Victoria Street, Redditch, showing \u2018papering and wrapping\u2019 – which is making the packets, pasting labels on to them and then putting the needles into the packets.<\/p>\n
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1) Image shows Hilda White, Jessie Mills, Vera Batchelor, M. 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