Well done Sid -

It was nice to also hear part ot the Jute Mill song by Mary Brookbank (a former jute mill worker herself)* on a programme about the Jute production connection between Dundee and Calcutta presented by Hollywood actor Brian Cox, a son of Dundee on
Brian Cox's Jute Journey this week.

*'The life of the women workers of Dundee right up to the thirties was ... a living hell of hard work and poverty.
It was a common sight to see women, after a long ten-hour-day in the mill, running to the stream wash-houses with the family washing. They worked up to the last few days before having their bairns. Often they would call in at the calenders from their work and carry home bundles of sacks to sew.
These were paid for at the rate of 5d for 25, 6d for a coarser type of sack.
Infant and maternal mortality in Dundee was the highest in the country.'
(Mary Brooksbank, 'No Sae Lang Syne: A Tale of This City', quoted in Henderson/Armstrong 154f)'