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PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN 
A ROW- THEY HAD STYLE BACK IN 1908
The kitchen staff at No 4 Factory in 1908
With their pinafores starched white and their hair pinned under
their caps the kitchen hands from No4 factory lined up for the
picture on the right in 1908. Mrs Daley was 19 when she joined
the restaurant staff at No4 factory."I used to prepare the
meals in the kitchens and I earned eight shillings a week."she
told Wills World. The cost of a cooked dinner was 4d and 6d, with
sweets costing a penny. The work people would also buy a cup of
tea or a glass of hot milk for a penny. The girls used to come
down to the factory to serve . I enjoyed it, except for the first
few months when we had a new overseer. She made me nearly crazy.
I couldn't stick her. She made our lives a misery. The girls were
meticulously clean and had to endure inspections by matron.
Mrs Joan Daley also knows all about the Raleigh Road factories
because she worked at No.3 for 30 years. Ten years ago she transferred
to Bedminster cigarette making. On November 14th 1972 she completed
40 years service.
 Wills
World presented Mrs Daley with an enlarged photo of her original
64 yr old photo. Here she looks at it with her daughter, Miss
Joan Daley [Bedminster making], who last month retired after 40yrs.
G.I. BRIDE RETURNS AFTER 20 YEARS.
More than 20 years after leaving Britain as a G.I. bride Mrs
Myra Hunkley returned to Wills on a sentimental journey.Mrs Hunkley
could recognise little of the factory she knew. In her four years,
she worked in the stemming room and the beating room. 
Mrs Hunkley chats with Miss Doris Bell [right] the deputy forewoman,
and Edna Perry, one of the instructors, during her visit to the
beating room.
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FASHION GOES WITH SAFETY
Pagan brown, siren green. Celtic green and witching black sound
like high fashion colours hardly likely to be associated with
the workaday world of industrial shoes. But these are the colours
of shoes in a display which has been going around the Bristol
factories showing that safety shoes can offer glamour as well
as protection. Called Spellbinders they sell at 49s 11d a pair
and they can be paid on very easy terms. After the display had
 been
in No 1 factory 200 pairs of shoes were sold.
Anne Purvey tries on one of the safety shoes while Mrs Madge
Langley gives a sales talk to Jean Webb [left] in a packing room
at No4 factory.
AIR HOSTESS POST
A former cigar packer at No 2 factory in Bristol, 19 year old
Angela Doane is now training as a hostess with one of Australia's
airlines.
THE GIRLS WHO CALL THE TUNE
The BBC's Onederful radio 1 has proved less than wonderful to
listeners during the music periods in the Wills factories.They
find the fast talking disc-jockeys with their jokes and comments
cannot be heard over the noise of the machinery and long for their
old favourite "Music while you work." Until the BBC
decide the factories own disc jockeys are playing extra sessionsof
gramophone records to fill the gap. At the No4 factories at Ashton
the regular disc jockey is 64 year-old Mrs Kate Milton, who takes
over the turn table for four half-hour sessions and for another
hour when evening over  time
is being worked.
Mrs Mary Perrett, one of the No.1 factory D.J.'s
"People like something to sing to." she says
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