1951....at age 11 I was making these tank nets at 16 Parc Avenue. Straightforward really; you screwed a hook into the corner of the kitchen wall, hung the cord around it, grabbed the wooden bobbin and started weaving...it was repetitive and took hours to make. I got paid 10/-, 50p. which my mother snatched!...Ten shillings in 1951 was worth about £15 today.
Thank you for this wonderful piece of St Ives history.
1951....at age 11 I was making these tank nets at 16 Parc Avenue. Straightforward really; you screwed a hook into the corner of the kitchen wall, hung the cord around it, grabbed the wooden bobbin and started weaving...it was repetitive and took hours to make. I got paid 10/-, 50p. which my mother snatched!...Ten shillings in 1951 was worth about £15 today.
it wasn't only women who worked there, my dad was a dress cutter at Flawns