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This scene on the River Wansbeck

'Miss Mildred Carter - Grandmother's Boa'

she is knitting a blue-stocking

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A group of women receive a lesson in boot repairing Nigel Havers This scene on the RiverA group of women receive a lesson in boot repairing, World War I, c1914 c1918. A cobbler showing women how to repair boots at Scaynes Hill Women's Insititute, Sussex. Cobbling was traditionally regarded as an occupation only for men, but was efficiently taken over by women during the war.

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