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Description: | Anne Parker was born in 1897 and started work aged only 14, just before the start of the First World War. It was quite normal then for children to start work at this young age, as secondary education for children was not compulsory.
The First World War had a significant influence on the lives of Londoners like Anne. Before the war, women were able to work only in limited jobs, in factories or as servants, for example. Women could 'take in' work, such as other people's laundry or sewing, but it was not usual for married women to go out to work.
Anne talks about her memories as a working woman before the war. She describes women as 'bits of birds'. This was common slang of the time, taken from the large hats with lots of feathers that women used to wear. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Communities Public Services Work | Temporal: | 1910-1919 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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