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Title
British
Shoe
Corporation
:
Charity
Ironing
Creator
Leicester Mercury
Subject (keywords)
industry
newspapers
shoe industry
Description
Black
and
white
photograph
of a
group
of
British
Shoe
Corporation
staff
.
Cutting
pasted
on
reverse
titled
, 'Its the
iron
maidens!
'
reads
: '
Four
British
Shoe
workers
steamed
their
way
through
piles
of
crumpled
shirts
when
they
held
a
sponsored
"
iron-in
" for
charity
.
Originally
two
staff
,
Mrs
.
Wendy
Braisby
and
Miss
Sue
Butler
, were to
take
part
in. But they were
so
overwhelmed
by the
bags
of
creased
shirts
that they
drafted
in
Miss
Jackie
Halewood
and
Mrs
.
Sarah
Richards
to
lend
some
elbow
grease.
'
Publisher
Leicester Mercury
Type
Photograph
Format
image/jpeg
Date
15/11/1989
Period covered
1980-1989
Identifier
LMBSC19891115
Source
Leicester Mercury Archive, LMA1/4/I/4
Location
United Kingdom -- England -- Leicester
Rights
You may use this item in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 UK: England & Wales License:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/
Collection
Leicester Mercury Archive Industry Photographs
Metadata licence
You can re-use this metadata record under a Creative Commons Zero ‘no rights reserved’ licence:
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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