East Riding Museums

B & W photograph of a woman wearing a patterned blouse and dungarees, carrying a metal-headed tool with a long wooden shaft. The title along the bottom reads 'Still a Plate Layer'. Card mounted. By the well-known Bridlington photographer William Foster Brigham. A plate layer is a person working to maintain railway tracks by regluar checks and relaying of rails. A vital work during the years of World War II and just after. Which is when this photograph dates from.