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Title: Cotton Mill something - what was this 12 year old doing for a living?
Post by: nicdigby on Wednesday 28 June 23 21:01 BST (UK)

Hi, can you please help me out with the exact role that this 12-year-old boy had in the Dee cotton mill on the 1921 census in Lancashire?

"Spinning Room ???????"

Thanks in advance

Title: Re: Cotton Mill something - what was this 12 year old doing for a living?
Post by: casram on Wednesday 28 June 23 21:03 BST (UK)

Spinning room tuber

Title: Re: Cotton Mill something - what was this 12 year old doing for a living?
Post by: nicdigby on Wednesday 28 June 23 21:50 BST (UK)

Thank you!

Title: Re: Cotton Mill something - what was this 12 year old doing for a living?
Post by: hepburn on Wednesday 28 June 23 21:53 BST (UK)

The boys and girls working at the mill were given
the jobs which took advantage of their small size.
Reginald first worked as a ‘tuber’, filling canisters
with paper tubes that were then fixed on to the
machinery. Later once he had more experience,
he became a ‘piecer’. The large spinning
machines were 150 feet long and lined with
threads of cotton.....

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