Well, Hello Auntie Kit. I think I only met her a couple of times so would not recognise her. Those happy times were when an annual fete was held in a field going towards their home, on the left hand side. I think it was somewhere opposite a Farm.
Those were the days! - `olden days Shane`. When the sun always shone in the summer, snow always came in the winter and a luxury item was a stick of rhubarb dipped in sugar.
That's so great that you found out who she was and where she fitted into the family. Your hard work is much appreciated. Also, I loved looking through the Picture Gallery again. Haven't done that for a while and it was so good to see the new photos.
Come on Shane. Give us a hint. (Which branch of the Oliver family is she on?)
Like your Mum, Linda, my Mum also made gloves. I remember the old treadle sewing machine she had. She would sit for hours working away on the gloves. In the evening they had to be trimmed and turned. I helped with the turning. You needed a long finger shaped stick to push out the ends of the fingers. The leather was really soft. I noticed on the census that this occupation is shown as "gloveress". I'd never heard that term before. It's amazing how many women were listed with this occupation.
You may be interested to know that the next meeting of the Finstock Local History Society is a talk by Carol Anderson called 'Slitters, Webbers and Tranks' (500 years of glove making in Woodstock and the surrounding villages).
Friday 21 January 2011, 8 p.m., Finstock Village Hall Members free, non-members £2.50
-- Edited by jane on Tuesday 11th of January 2011 01:48:24 PM
Umm, thanks for that, could be - very similar atleast.
I imagine the one of the left was a good few years prior to the one on the right (thought to be 1947/1948) so it could be the same biulding just a few years between them, the latter one with a new door, new window and a bit of a brush up on the brickwork.
Just a thought. Check out Finstock Local History Society web page. The edition which covers - Spanish Liquor Day Look at the pictures on the R.H.Side. One shows `A Finstock Resident from many years ago`. Look at the roof - stonework and window (near the spade), Even though the door is hung on the opposite side - could this be the same house?
Lovely photo but I'm afraid I don't recognise her either.
It looks as if she might be making sheepskin mittens or gloves and trimming the seams.
My Mum was a glover, she put the thumbs in. I used to be fascinated by the names of the different parts of the glove - quirks and fourchetts are the ones I remember. Lovely fine leather, all different colours. A man from the glove factory would deliver a big bundle, the seams on the back of the glove and the elastication across the wrist had already been done. Mum would put in the thumbs, they would then be collected and passed on for someone else to do the fingers and I think then they would go off to someone else to be finished.
Never thought at the time to take photo's - now I wish I had.
