Atherstone. Wilson and Stafford Hatters

Woman working as a settler in the bumping shop of Wilson and Stafford | Image courtesy of Susan Wright
Working as a settler in the bumping shop of Wilson and Stafford, hat manufacturers
Image courtesy of Susan Wright

This is me in the photograph working at the hatters. I was a settler in the bumping shop, so I had to put the material through a roller so many times, till it went down to the right size, it was all steam and rollers and bumping down.

I finished at Wilson and Stafford in 1997, and a year or two later the factory closed.